Latham’s Law
Latham’s law
In this era of media lists – such as Fitzy and Wippa counting down the Top 20 Mind-Numbingly Trivial Celebrity…
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President Dropkick & The US Confusion Centre When an obscure, unelected committee, rising up from the bottom of Canberra’s bureaucratic…
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I have a confession to make. When late last year, on the ill-fated panel show The Verdict, I publicly declared…
Latham’s Law: 29 September 2012
For many readers, The Spectator Australia is like The Real Housewives of Orange County. Only the front bits are worth…
Latham’s Law – 8 September 2012
Gerard Henderson is crackers. This is the only conclusion one can reach from his increasingly bizarre attacks on The Spectator…
Latham’s Law – 25 August 2012
One of the grave concerns of parents is bullying at school, that unbearable circumstance in which good, hard-working students are…
Latham’s law – 11 August 2012
This is the story of an Australian Opposition Leader who cried wolf about a new tax. In the months leading…
Latham’s Law – 28 July 2012
When Kevin Rudd was rising through the ranks of the Parliamentary Labor party a decade ago, his most diligent critic…
Latham’s law – 21 July 2012
In the public dispute over Labor-Green preferences, Sarah Hanson-Young, the Greens’ immigration spokesperson, made a telling contribution. ‘There’s a big…
Latham’s Law – 14th July 2012
One of the delusions of life in Canberra is that laws passed on Capital Hill have a big-bang impact on…
Latham’s Law -30 June 2012
First, an important update. In September I reported on the new system by which the memory of journalists would be…
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Nothing excites journalists more than a debate about the future of journalism. While this is not unusual among professional groups,…
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For those who study the succession to the throne, last Friday was a red-letter day. Britain’s Prince Charles gave a…
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In the 1980s classic Ghostbusters, Ray Parker Jr’s theme music gave rise to an enduring catchcry: Who you gonna call?…
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Parliamentary service confers on its participants a wide range of life skills. One of these is an unerring ability to…
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Each year with the commemoration of Anzac Day, there are some fascinating reflections on our national culture. I think the…
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There is a story, apocryphal perhaps, about the meeting between John F. Kennedy and the Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev in…
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A common lament in political commentary is how parliamentary life has changed beyond recognition. The end of Cold War ideology…
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No one could accuse the Queensland Labor Party of over-intellectualising its political tactics. At a time when academics and commentators…
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Some of the new television programming for 2012 has been hard to follow. Last Sunday, for instance, I tuned into…
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One of the mighty tales of American politics concerns the populist, Depression-era Governor of Louisiana, Huey Long. Campaigning for office,…
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The Gillard-Rudd struggle is not just about party politics. It is also about media politics. At the Sydney Morning Herald,…
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Kevin Rudd’s resignation as Foreign Minister is consistent with every other scene in this Rudd-inspired soap opera. The man who…
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Later this year, Labor’s new leader (either Stephen Smith or Bill Shorten) will have a strategic decision to make: what…
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One of the delusions of the nanny state is that laws made in the distant chambers of Parliament House can…
