Australian Notes
Australian notes
The protest rally across the road from Parliament in Sydney was no lynch mob. They were ordinary, mostly elderly people…
Australian notes
The protest rally across the road from Parliament in Sydney was no lynch mob. They were ordinary, mostly elderly people…
Australian Notes
Mr Keating cannot help himself. The solemnity and splendour of the Remembrance Day service in a drizzling Canberra was a…
Australian Notes
Mr Keating cannot help himself. The solemnity and splendour of the Remembrance Day service in a drizzling Canberra was a…
Australian Notes
In his call to arms at the black-tie dinner in Sydney Town Hall celebrating the Lowy Institute’s tenth anniversary, Rupert…
Australian Notes
In his call to arms at the black-tie dinner in Sydney Town Hall celebrating the Lowy Institute’s tenth anniversary, Rupert…
Australian Notes
Good to see the names of another 11 writers added to the Circular Quay Writers’ Walk in Sydney. But can…
Australian Notes
Good to see the names of another 11 writers added to the Circular Quay Writers’ Walk in Sydney. But can…
Australian notes
The offence of the Greens, especially Adam Bandt, in blaming the bushfires on Tony Abbott is not that they politicised…
Australian notes
The offence of the Greens, especially Adam Bandt, in blaming the bushfires on Tony Abbott is not that they politicised…
Australian notes
The cheers of 180 celebrants (at $290 a head) echoed across the moonlit harbour from Pinchgut Island to the Opera…
Australian notes
The cheers of 180 celebrants (at $290 a head) echoed across the moonlit harbour from Pinchgut Island to the Opera…
Australian notes
Neither ‘Albo’ Albanese nor Billy Shorten will be the next Labor prime minister, according to John Howard. This is partly…
Australian notes
Neither ‘Albo’ Albanese nor Billy Shorten will be the next Labor prime minister, according to John Howard. This is partly…
Australian notes
At Julia Gillard’s triumphal rallies, her ecstatic audiences applauded the idea that her valour in standing up to misogyny will…
Australian notes
At Julia Gillard’s triumphal rallies, her ecstatic audiences applauded the idea that her valour in standing up to misogyny will…
Australian notes
David Marr, the celebrated journalist, has done it again. First he psychoanalysed the rabid Kevin Rudd in his essay Power…
Australian notes
David Marr, the celebrated journalist, has done it again. First he psychoanalysed the rabid Kevin Rudd in his essay Power…
Australian Notes
Will its allies around the world ever recover that confidence in the United States, which they lost with President Obama’s…
Australian Notes
Will its allies around the world ever recover that confidence in the United States, which they lost with President Obama’s…
Australian notes
Mr Putin suggests that Syria submit its chemical weapons to international control. Syria’s foreign minister thinks this is a good…
Australian notes
Mr Putin suggests that Syria submit its chemical weapons to international control. Syria’s foreign minister thinks this is a good…
Australian notes
They can’t help themselves. Despite the ancient warnings against counting chickens and the dreadful memory of the unlosable, but lost,…
Australian Notes
The Labor party has no hope of winning the election unless something extraordinary happens in the next few days. Is…
Australian Notes
It was a great night in the Paddo RSL. It was an open-to-all public meeting to hear and question candidates…
