Simon Collins

Aussie life

16 November 2024 9:00 am

I am not worried about being outed as a recipient of Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs’ hospitality. Yes, it is true that…

The waking of the woke

7 November 2024 6:28 pm

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2 November 2024 9:00 am

Despite historically owning less property than men, women have always exerted a powerful influence in the sector. Like lyre birds,…

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12 October 2024 9:00 am

‘When I was 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have him around,’ wrote Mark Twain,…

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5 October 2024 9:00 am

At the same time you were hearing about the second attempt on Donald Trump’s life, you can be sure that…

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14 September 2024 9:00 am

Cynics will say it is just a coincidence that Qantas sacked its longest-serving board member a few days after I…

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31 August 2024 9:00 am

You can take the boy out of advertising, but you can’t take the copywriter out of the middle-aged man. I…

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17 August 2024 9:00 am

O wad some pow’r the giftie gie us, To see oursels as ithers see us! said Robbie Burns. And nobody…

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3 August 2024 9:00 am

Imagine if, instead of returning to the USA to become its third president, Thomas Jefferson had died in France on…

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19 July 2024 11:00 pm

Not very long ago, the propensity of some Australians to sit around watching other people do things on screens rather…

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6 July 2024 9:00 am

For most of China’s 1.4 billion population, 2024 has been the Year of the Dragon, which makes it, according to…

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22 June 2024 9:00 am

Being an AFL umpire does not look like a job for the thin-skinned. Given the passion of the code’s fan…

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8 June 2024 9:00 am

Encomium or insult, tribute or travesty; the line between portrait and caricature can be a very fine one. Readers who…

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25 May 2024 9:00 am

It is a point of principle for the residents of the smarter parts of Manhattan not to notice – and…

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11 May 2024 9:00 am

As the terrible events in Bondi Junction last month reminded us, fortune doesn’t always favour the brave. Indeed, the courage…

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27 April 2024 9:00 am

Almost exactly 50 years before James Cook’s first encounter with the Gweagal and Gameygal peoples on the shores of what…

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13 April 2024 9:00 am

It’s been a long time since the beer garden of the iconic Oaks Hotel in Sydney’s Neutral Bay lost all…

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23 March 2024 9:00 am

Which part of ‘No thanks’, many Australians may be wondering, does our Prime Minister not understand? Six months after the…

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9 March 2024 9:00 am

The Banksy retrospective which has been drawing modest crowds to the basement of Sydney Town Hall in recent weeks is…

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24 February 2024 9:00 am

Surprisingly, perhaps, it was only 20 years after the Union flag was first raised in Sydney Cove that white Australians…

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10 February 2024 9:00 am

At time of writing, we do not know whether there is any truth to the allegations which have been made…

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27 January 2024 9:00 am

Move over, Errol Flynn. It took long enough, but as of last Tuesday you are no longer Tasmania’s most popular…

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9 December 2023 9:00 am

While the donning of keffiyehs by actors at the end of a performance of the Sydney Theatre Company’s production of…

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2 December 2023 9:00 am

Who can honestly say they’ve never contemplated murder? What red-blooded Australian can put their hand on their heart and swear…

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18 November 2023 9:00 am

I’ve never been a fan of Gordon Ramsay. More prudie than foodie, perhaps, I’ve always believed that what comes out…