Diary Australia
Spanish diary
My choice of newspapers was limited. Given my little Spanish, the New York Times was always going to win out…
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When a few months ago my friend Tom Switzer – former editor of this magazine and now director of the…
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For the past three years, I had been looking to say something strong and substantial about Brexit. I first had…
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It’s been a long time away from home in Tasmania. I arrived in Rome in early July to teach Latin…
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Donald Trump’s border wall may not yet be built from coast-to-coast but the barrier between those who support the president…
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Even in parliament, fashions change. I am not referring to the width of lapels, the length of dresses, the style…
Ex-Pollie Pedal
Maybe it wouldn’t surprise you to know how constrained and routine most MPs’ lives become. It’s day after day of…
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The Holy Land. The Promised Land. The Land of Milk and Honey. Few countries have as many nicknames as Israel.…
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The gloss of a new political year doesn’t take long to wear off. The shiny enthusiasm that accompanies the pomp…
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Reading the spectacular biography Nixonland is like stepping back into the future when it comes to the current presidency, and…
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I stepped out in Warringah on Saturday and stepped into a social media storm. I had earlier asked my old…
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A visit to Britain reveals growing anxiety that we’re witnessing the Great Brexit Betrayal. One of Twitter’s funniest and most…
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It was well before sunrise on a February morning at Bondi Beach. A handful of walkers, joggers and runners were…
Australian diary
Although it is a winter of discontent in Europe, there was little overt evidence of it in Vienna. It was…
Elvis diary
Everyone, at least once in life, should go to the Elvis Festival in Parkes, Central NSW.The Leftist elites would hate…
Mentawai diary
The Mentawais are a chain of islands off Sumatra, Indonesia, the lower southwest coast of which has the highest concentration…
Christmas diary
I’m embarrassed. Last night I spoke briefly at a black-tie gala dinner of the Institute of Public Affairs. I must…
Spanish diary
On arriving for the first time in decades on Spanish soil I realise that the last time I visited –…
Canberra diary
I like Canberra. I’d like it even more if it had been named ‘Shakespeare’, one of the options on the…
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If I had three years spare I would enrol in the BA at Campion College, at Toongabbie in Sydney’s west.…
Australian diary
After my stoush with Graham Richardson on Sky News last month I haven’t been invited back onto the show where…
London diary
One of the things I used to look forward to on London visits was the theatre; but too often now…
Brunei Diary
Six years before his death in 2015, Singapore’s founding father Lee Kuan Yew gave an insightful interview during which he…
Austro-Hungarian diary
One of the great pleasures of spending time in Budapest is admiring the city’s restoration. Despite war, communism and 1956,…
Australian diary
Having become jaded by years of phony multiculturalism, which in Australia has led to cultural ghettos, dual citizenships, victimhood and…
