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At going to press The Spectator Australia learnt of the death of David Armstrong, the greatest philosopher Australia has produced.…
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At going to press The Spectator Australia learnt of the death of David Armstrong, the greatest philosopher Australia has produced.…
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You really have to go to Washington DC to see the decline and fall of the United States or at…
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You really have to go to Washington DC to see the decline and fall of the United States or at…
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So Malcolm Fraser’s new hero is Dr H.V. Evatt. This is how Robert Manne sees it in his long and…
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So Malcolm Fraser’s new hero is Dr H.V. Evatt. This is how Robert Manne sees it in his long and…
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I first came across Neville Wran back in January 1946. Just out of school but not yet enrolled in Sydney…
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I first came across Neville Wran back in January 1946. Just out of school but not yet enrolled in Sydney…
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Bob Carr’s Diary of a Foreign Minister is further evidence for those who need it. Years ago the late John…
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Bob Carr’s Diary of a Foreign Minister is further evidence for those who need it. Years ago the late John…
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My modest proposal for the reform of the Labor party is to relieve Billy Shorten of his duties and make…
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My modest proposal for the reform of the Labor party is to relieve Billy Shorten of his duties and make…
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I am in John Howard’s corner rather than Tony Abbott’s on the great question of knights and dames. But the…
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I am in John Howard’s corner rather than Tony Abbott’s on the great question of knights and dames. But the…
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Until recently the anti-Israel BDS (Boycott Divestment Sanctions) movement was on its last legs in Australia. Few Australians had heard…
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Until recently the anti-Israel BDS (Boycott Divestment Sanctions) movement was on its last legs in Australia. Few Australians had heard…
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Cheers all round for Andrew Bolt who extracted an apology, however grudging, from the ABC for broadcasting false and defamatory…
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Cheers all round for Andrew Bolt who extracted an apology, however grudging, from the ABC for broadcasting false and defamatory…
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An Aborigine, an Arab and a Jew enter a public bar. They look more worried than angry as they bear…
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An Aborigine, an Arab and a Jew enter a public bar. They look more worried than angry as they bear…
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What an eccentric case the Race Discrimination Commissioner Tim Soutphommasane mounted against the federal government’s proposal to amend section 18C…
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What an eccentric case the Race Discrimination Commissioner Tim Soutphommasane mounted against the federal government’s proposal to amend section 18C…
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The Labor party and many journalists are scandalised (‘aghast’, ‘outraged’) by the Abbott government’s decision to accede to a request…
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The Labor party and many journalists are scandalised (‘aghast’, ‘outraged’) by the Abbott government’s decision to accede to a request…
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In his eloquent ‘Closing the Gap’ speech Tony Abbott’s call to all Australians ‘to open their hearts’ to Aborigines was…