Australian Notes
Australian notes
On 30 November Britons and Australians alike celebrate the 150th birthday of a great, but largely forgotten man: Winston S.…
Australian notes
The conflict in Gaza has, paradoxically, caused the greatest problems in Australian public debate for the politically correct class who…
Australian notes
Did you know that the Australian government in bygone days issued licences to citizens to hunt Aboriginals? No, I didn’t…
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The Managerial Class Recently I spoke at the Sydney Institute on the subject of George Orwell’s justly famous essay ‘Politics…
New HRC madness
In Canberra a parliamentary committee is considering whether to recommend a huge transfer of power from the elected executive government…
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An alliance of philanthropic foundations has declared their support for the Voice: a combined $17-million pledge from the philanthropic sector…
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Major problems with the Voice referendum are plain to see: even some of its prominent supporters question its chances of…
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The announcement of the route we will take to acquire nuclear submarines is good only in parts. Down the road…
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When the Australian editorialises (24/02/23) that, ‘No one who has followed [its] reporting over decades could remain untouched by the…
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ABC grope-think True to its mission to enlighten and entertain, the ABC has set out to inform us about the…
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‘Euthanasia should be rejected on one unifying principle: the people who are most at risk are the most vulnerable, and…
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In 2020, after 78 years of injustice, an 18-year-old in the Royal Australian Navy, Teddy Sheean, received a Victoria Cross…
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Having flown to the United Nations Climate Change Conference (Cop 27) in Egypt, Climate Change Minister Chris Bowen has been…
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The current consideration by the Australian Human Rights Commission of a complaint by Green Senator Mehreen Faruqi against fellow Senator…
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Poisoning people to save the planet The blades from environmentally friendly subsidised bird- and bat-chomping inefficient wind turbines have a…
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Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has thrown his support behind truth-telling as a softener for the emotional campaign for the Voice…
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For Australians of the second world war generation, the name Guadalcanal engenders immediate thoughts and emotions about some of the…
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The defection of a number of Australian Anglicans from their Church might not seem of more than local importance but…
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The past two years have seen the trust many Australians’ have in their institutions brought to an all-time low through…
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On this page last election eve I wrote, ‘Mums and dads across the country look set to elect a Labor…
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As I was driving home on Saturday after a busy day, I realised that everything I had done that day,…
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Sorry to say this – but apologies by political figures seem to have become completely meaningless. In a visit to…
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Snot catches some of the 50 million particles inhaled with every breath. These particles are one hundredth the size of…
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Why on earth are we stopping people who want to work from working? I used to work at a community…
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The liberty that dare not speak its name Lord Alfred Douglas, young lover of the great Oscar Wilde, wrote a…
