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The Jackal vote
I have argued before that New Zealand and Australia might combine their defence forces, providing New Zealand pulled its weight…
Business/Robbery etc
At last a rational solution to Australia’s government-generated economically-crazy job-destroying energy crisis? Or just more pie in the sky from…
Brief candle
Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow creeps in this petty pace from day to day to the last syllable of PM…
The Cory revolution
It’s hard to imagine that, less than five years ago, Cory Bernardi was Tony Abbott’s parliamentary secretary. The role suited…
Hanging on the telephone
January 29, 2017 might be remembered by Australians and Americans as the day when the President of the United States,…
Mr Trumble’s dumb deal
President Trump was right. It was a ‘dumb deal’, dumb for both Australia and the United States. First, it was…
The Jackal vote
I have argued before that New Zealand and Australia might combine their defence forces, providing New Zealand pulled its weight…
Business/Robbery etc
At last a rational solution to Australia’s government-generated economically-crazy job-destroying energy crisis? Or just more pie in the sky from…
Indigenous indulgences
I acknowledge the Aboriginal peoples who are the Traditional Custodians of the land on which I live. I pay my…
Time to switch off SBS
The impending retirement of ABC chairman, Jim Spigelman, presents Malcolm Turnbull with an ideal opportunity to shake up the country’s…
Teaching history
Australia Day always brings out the whingers, the whiners, the crazy Invasion Day anti-nationalists and the almost equally crazy flag-draped…
Dumbing down NSW
What do Mary Durack, Christina Stead, A. B. Facey, Xavier Herbert, Les Murray, Thomas Keneally and Clive James have in…
Addicted to outrage
Outrage is the new normal. Sparking outrage − for whatever reason − is the new sin. The number of lazy…
More divisive than Trump
Often, the tone words are delivered in is equally, if not more important, than the words themselves. It’s hardly surprising,…
Indigenous indulgences
I acknowledge the Aboriginal peoples who are the Traditional Custodians of the land on which I live. I pay my…
Time to switch off SBS
The impending retirement of ABC chairman, Jim Spigelman, presents Malcolm Turnbull with an ideal opportunity to shake up the country’s…
Addicted to outrage
Outrage is the new normal. Sparking outrage − for whatever reason − is the new sin. The number of lazy…
Teaching history
Australia Day always brings out the whingers, the whiners, the crazy Invasion Day anti-nationalists and the almost equally crazy flag-draped…
More divisive than Trump
Often, the tone words are delivered in is equally, if not more important, than the words themselves. It’s hardly surprising,…
Dumbing down NSW
What do Mary Durack, Christina Stead, A. B. Facey, Xavier Herbert, Les Murray, Thomas Keneally and Clive James have in…
Clothes maketh the MP
Like many women watching Donald Trump’s swearing in as the 45th President of the United States of America, I held…
Turnbull is toast
Most people are bemused when I predict that Malcolm Turnbull won’t be prime minister by the end of the year.…
Vulgarian? Populist? Brawler?
The inauguration is over and we now have the most unlikely of US presidents. A complete outsider to politics and…
Stung!
Centrelink – as everyone in Australia knows – shat the bed last month, leaving the government (and particularly Christian Porter)…
Lefty laughs
‘Why doesn’t the Left do humour?’ I asked a left-wing friend. ‘Why is it only conservatives who know how to…
