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The failure of Russian forces to achieve their Ukrainian objectives is said to have surprised nobody more than their commander-in-chief.…
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Is the woke tide finally starting to turn? One aspect of the mainstream media’s coverage of the Ukraine crisis might…
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According to our National Archives, the aim of the Immigration Restriction Act, aka the White Australia Policy, was ‘to limit…
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Prime ministers rarely lose elections by bungling a single issue. An obvious benefit of the four-year term is that if…
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I’m thinking about acquiring a drug habit. As a New South Wales Seniors Card carrier I may have left it…
Breadgate: let them eat wholegrain
In recent weeks it’s been tempting to look for similarities between the re-election prospects of Boris Johnson and Scott Morrison.…
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If a week is a long time in politics, two months is a geological epoch, during which not just goalposts…
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Even in Australian publications of a conspicuously conservative disposition, it has been some time since any respected pundit has suggested,…
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I am writing this in Old South Wales, in the visitor suite of my mother’s assisted living facility. When I…
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One of the reasons I still buy newspapers is that what no longer seems to be true of vocabulary and…
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I have reached an age where I have started to forget where I have put things, but so far they…
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You know the royals are in trouble when a prominent member of Australians for Constitutional Monarchy writes an article suggesting…
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I’m not sure what the sacking of Michael Leunig says more about; the state of Australian journalism or the status…
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Go on, admit it; just when you thought it was safe to go back to the pub, or the office,…
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One of the most compelling things about Stanley Kubrick’s sci-fi masterpiece 2001: A Space Odyssey, is the way we don’t…
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Not everyone was as pleased as most Australians were to learn about our historic new defence pact with the UK…
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Do fish have feelings? And if they do, does anybody care? RSPCA Australia’s willingness to lease their logo to salmon…
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We now know that Boris Johnson’s initial reluctance to impose Covid containment regulations was prompted by a confidential January 2020…
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At time of writing, Australia is sixth on the Tokyo medal ladder and with only one day of competition left…
