Australian Notes

Australian Notes

20 February 2014 3:00 pm

In his eloquent ‘Closing the Gap’ speech Tony Abbott’s call to all Australians ‘to open their hearts’ to Aborigines was…

Australian Notes

15 February 2014 9:00 am

A new class war is being mounted between those who feel for Schapelle Corby in her long ordeal in an…

Notes from Iran

15 February 2014 9:00 am

Now that I’ve moved into the silly old duffer age bracket, a lot of invitations to film festivals, as a…

Notes from Iran

13 February 2014 3:00 pm

Now that I’ve moved into the silly old duffer age bracket, a lot of invitations to film festivals, as a…

Australian Notes

13 February 2014 3:00 pm

A new class war is being mounted between those who feel for Schapelle Corby in her long ordeal in an…

Australian Noties

8 February 2014 9:00 am

When Senator Eric Abetz was a raw youth of 23, he had what he calls an ‘instructive’ experience. A newly…

Australian Noties

6 February 2014 3:00 pm

When Senator Eric Abetz was a raw youth of 23, he had what he calls an ‘instructive’ experience. A newly…

Australian Notes

1 February 2014 9:00 am

A footnote to the Dolce Affair in which the literary-political magazine Overland has banned the work of the songwriter and…

Australian Notes

30 January 2014 3:00 pm

A footnote to the Dolce Affair in which the literary-political magazine Overland has banned the work of the songwriter and…

Australian Notes

25 January 2014 9:00 am

Almost every newspaper in the world from China to Peru has an opinion, usually censorious, about President Hollande of France…

Australian Notes

23 January 2014 3:00 pm

Almost every newspaper in the world from China to Peru has an opinion, usually censorious, about President Hollande of France…

Australian Notes

18 January 2014 9:00 am

To start with a story: long years ago in 1978 Mary Lady Fairfax hosted a dinner in her Point Piper…

Australian Notes

16 January 2014 3:00 pm

To start with a story: long years ago in 1978 Mary Lady Fairfax hosted a dinner in her Point Piper…

Australian Notes

11 January 2014 9:00 am

John Howard tells the story about a public meeting organised by the Women’s Electoral Lobby back in 1974 when he…

Australian Notes

9 January 2014 3:00 pm

John Howard tells the story about a public meeting organised by the Women’s Electoral Lobby back in 1974 when he…

Australian Notes

4 January 2014 9:00 am

Advice to new graduates from an old Chief Justice of Australia, Murray Gleeson: ‘To think against the spirit of the…

Australian Notes

3 January 2014 3:00 pm

Advice to new graduates from an old Chief Justice of Australia, Murray Gleeson: ‘To think against the spirit of the…

Australian Notes

14 December 2013 9:00 am

Hal Colebatch — lawyer, historian, poet, novelist — tells the story that, when speaking a few years ago to a…

Australian Notes

12 December 2013 3:00 pm

Hal Colebatch — lawyer, historian, poet, novelist — tells the story that, when speaking a few years ago to a…

Australian Notes

7 December 2013 9:00 am

One or two obtuse observers expressed surprise that Martin Sharp came in the end to embrace conservative values. He even…

Australian Notes

5 December 2013 3:00 pm

One or two obtuse observers expressed surprise that Martin Sharp came in the end to embrace conservative values. He even…

Australian Notes

30 November 2013 9:00 am

Tony Abbott is right. Too much is being made of the Governor-General’s ‘injudicious’ support for republicanism and gay marriage. It…

Australian Notes

28 November 2013 3:00 pm

Tony Abbott is right. Too much is being made of the Governor-General’s ‘injudicious’ support for republicanism and gay marriage. It…

Australian notes

23 November 2013 9:00 am

The protest rally across the road from Parliament in Sydney was no lynch mob. They were ordinary, mostly elderly people…

Australian notes

21 November 2013 3:00 pm

The protest rally across the road from Parliament in Sydney was no lynch mob. They were ordinary, mostly elderly people…