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As The Spectator Australia is a journal of record, it should be noted here that Andrew Jones, the former Liberal…
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I don’t know what made me change my opinion so dramatically on a certain matter of public interest that has…
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As our Prime Minister has observed many times, there has never been a better time to be alive, what with…
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I am sorry to have to tell you this, but anarchists are not what they used to be. I reluctantly…
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It is good to see the Greens doing their bit to stop the evil gender bias and stereotyping now so…
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The way some political leaders and the media responded to the terrorist outrages in Paris was fascinating. First, I was…
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This column would take on an air of unreality if it did not say something sooner or later about the…
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The great reform summit has just ended and, as I predicted, was a complete waste of time. There were a…
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It was about 2 years ago that I started hanging out with Teddy. And what a roller- coaster of a…
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With the stuff and nonsense being thrown around about Dyson Heydon and the Royal Commission into union corruption, it is…
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Over the last year or so I have been trying to catch up on two aspects of modern culture that…
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It looks like we may have an early election. So that my readers will be well-informed citizens ready to take…
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There seems to have been an awful lot of evolving going on in Canberra lately. This has been particularly evident…
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Frankly, I cannot see anything wrong in paying people smugglers to go home; had I been in the government’s position…
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People seem to think I do not like the ABC. I can understand why some people hold this view. It…
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I suppose no-one will believe me when I say that I predicted the result of the UK election. But I…
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If I thought there was free speech in Australia since the Andrew Bolt case, I would tell you what I…
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I see that another parliamentary committee has been grappling with the dispute between the government and Gillian Triggs, and the…
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It is profoundly disturbing that the Liberal Party seems to have taken leave of its senses again and is about…
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I had hoped to bring you a cheery Christmas tale, but the political goings on in Melbourne and Canberra mean…
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I regret to say that this will be my last column, at least in this regular form. I am afraid…
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Troy Bramston (‘Gorton vs McMahon: the secret memo’ 30 August) joins a long line of journalists who keep repeating the…
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There have certainly been some changes in how governments go about their business. In the past, when trying to work…
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We came from Scotland when my father was nine and his family ditched the old world a year after the…
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The success of Tony Abbott and Julie Bishop in handling the aftermath of the ghastly events in Ukraine has been…