Australian Notes
Australian Notes
Tony Abbott won the first debate marginally on both style and issues. Neither leader was faintly inspirational let alone charismatic.…
Australian Notes
While Kevin Rudd was making his way to Yarralumla last Sunday, Tony Abbott was in Sydney’s Chinatown with Julie Bishop…
Australian notes
It was a stoic little gathering of Craig Thomson loyalists in the Celebrity Room of City Tatts in Sydney. Promoted…
Australian Notes
More from Poor Peter’s Almanac: Kevin Rudd is disliked by all who know him but is popular on television. Tony…
Australian Notes
Anyone who believes Kevin Rudd has changed will believe anything. So says the great cartoonist Bill Leak, unloading during the…
Australian Notes
The crowded Thanksgiving Service at St James, Kings Street, Sydney, for Charles Copeman, the mining executive who died aged 83…
Australian notes
There’s something irresistible about a philosopher who gives his recreations in Debrett’s as ‘wine, women and song’. Ken Minogue, who died last…
