Australian Notes

Australian notes

5 February 2022 9:00 am

Selling the dying Great Barrier Reef With the recent A$1billion announced to save the ‘dying’ Great Barrier Reef, I wonder…

Australian notes

18 December 2021 9:00 am

A great reset of one’s own When the last long New South Wales lockdown was imposed, I was probably exhausted.…

Australian notes

4 December 2021 9:00 am

The unbearable lightness of lying Ever since French President Emmanuel Macron told a credulous Australian media that he doesn’t think,…

Australian notes

13 November 2021 9:00 am

Zut alors! The French have not forgiven the English for Brexit. As Clément Beaune, France’s Minister for European Affairs, said…

Australian notes

6 November 2021 9:00 am

The great dumbing down While cleaning out some boxes the other day I came across one of my old school…

Australian notes

30 October 2021 9:00 am

Glasgow: where frail nations go to die I know a thing or two about terminal illness, and it seems to…

Australian notes

16 October 2021 9:00 am

What would happen after a loss? Here’s an important question to ponder. What direction would the federal Liberal party take…

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2 October 2021 9:00 am

The human rights industry exposed If there is one thing this Covid pandemic has shown us it is the hollow…

Australian notes

25 September 2021 9:00 am

How the thoughts of Xi led to the subs deal An independent inquiry into the persecution of the Uighurs in…

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4 September 2021 9:00 am

The new greek chorus: where are the feminists? As a woman of a certain age, it saddens me greatly to…

Australian notes

24 July 2021 9:00 am

Special Drawing Rights: one step closer to world government Even among this journal’s well-informed readers, how many have heard of,…

Australian notes

17 July 2021 9:00 am

Whitlam’s revenge It is often said that the Whitlam government was in office but not in power. Can the same…

Australian notes

3 July 2021 9:00 am

A Guide to Understanding this Pandemic We are all living through the worst inroads on our freedoms and civil liberties…

Australian notes

5 June 2021 9:00 am

Submarines no-brainer Our submarine acquisition program has spent several billion dollars and not seen a metre of steel cut yet.…

Australian notes

15 May 2021 9:00 am

Big government bounces back Despite its spending spree in the Budget, the federal government would do well to remember that…

Australian notes

24 April 2021 9:00 am

Australia’s Representatives: a new party to reclaim democracy We know that we live in a genuine democracy when, during a…

Australian notes

3 April 2021 9:00 am

Time for a new centre-right party? Don’t you find it odd that many of the people now clamouring for some…

Australian notes

6 March 2021 9:00 am

Smiling Prince of Victoria Even in these authoritarian times, life can still be unpredictable. I was in Melbourne recently and,…

Australian notes

27 February 2021 9:00 am

Bullocks As you drive into our nation’s beef capital you are greeted by a statue of a bull emblazoned with…

Australian notes

20 February 2021 9:00 am

Rudd fancies himself as Metternich The latest edition of Foreign Affairs, the American foreign policy journal, contains yet another article…

Australian notes

12 December 2020 9:00 am

Covid-19 and anti-Semitism In the face of rising anti-Semitism in Australia and the disruptive economic and social impact of Covid-19,…

Australian notes

21 November 2020 9:00 am

The ten per cent One of the chief complaints of the – now almost forgotten – Occupy Wall Street movement…

Australian notes

26 September 2020 9:00 am

18C on steroids The idea that a sitting Tasmanian senator can be dragged before the state Anti-Discrimination Commissioner for her…

Australian notes

12 September 2020 9:00 am

Mike Carlton does not deserve his gong Welcome to modern Australia, where encouraging the strangulation of women, calling them crazy,…

Our threatened eco-system

29 August 2020 9:00 am

Our threatened eco-system A fragile, irreplaceable eco-system is threatened and not a single environmentalist has raised their voice in protest.…