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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…
Business/Robbery etc
It’s not just a headwind; there’s a gale coming. The ‘global headwinds’ blamed by the Turnbull government for last week’s…
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…
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…
Turnbull is toast
Most people are bemused when I predict that Malcolm Turnbull won’t be prime minister by the end of the year.…
