Australian Notes
Australian notes
Mike Carlton does not deserve his gong Welcome to modern Australia, where encouraging the strangulation of women, calling them crazy,…
Our threatened eco-system
Our threatened eco-system A fragile, irreplaceable eco-system is threatened and not a single environmentalist has raised their voice in protest.…
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Takin’ it to the streets Although public protests have exploded in the last few months in some Western countries, there…
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Vision of justice ‘Justice is the end [goal] of government. It is the end of civil society,’ argued James Madison,…
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Yes, black lives do matter. But let’s have some honesty… The greatest failing of the Black Lives Matter movement in…
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Time to cancel cancel culture If I were ever asked, and I won’t be, I would urge the government to…
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Is it racism or the obsession with racism that is costing indigenous lives? Where’s the outrage regarding the high death…
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Chinese aggression and the New Cold War Over recent weeks commentators both in Australia and abroad have drawn attention to…
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It’s almost always a binary political world Have you ever wondered what Malcolm Turnbull’s version of the Golden Rule might…
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Imagine, no Magna Carta All over the world, millions of people are being subjected by their respective governments to an…
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Everybody loves borders now What do Justin Trudeau, Jacinda Ardern, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the crazier fringe of the Greens party (here…
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Let’s be a lot more sceptical towards China
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Enemies of free speech hide behind a bill of rights An intriguing feature of the debate about freedom of the…
We could be a superpower, too
Back in 2008, Kevin Rudd announced a new ‘Green Car Plan’ which in his words would ‘make the automotive industry…
Fighting fires
The richest man in Rome at the time of Julius Caesar was Marcus Licinius Crassus. Crassus made his fortune through…
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Elites thwarting the great Aussie dream For too many Australians, the great Australian dream of home ownership becomes more elusive…
Vale Tim Fischer
Tim Fischer’s penultimate speech in the House of Representatives was in response to a motion condemning the September 11 terrorist…
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Superglued to the Greens The great satirical novelist Evelyn Waugh once catalogued a fictional, remote and newly-converted Christian sect who…
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Eleven random thoughts Let me start with a bow to those who thought it best to vote for Malcolm Turnbull…
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Labor’s water hypocrisy What water scandal? ‘I acted on the recommendations of my department which had conducted an independent, competitive…
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Golden transparency of surrogacy secrecy? How many times have you met a person and wondered if they could talk under…
Running on empty
If anything happened to disrupt our imports of oil and fuel, such as a blockade of shipping through the South…
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On academic freedom The dismissal of Tim Anderson from his academic post at the University of Sydney has triggered a…
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Let’s emulate Jordan Jordan Peterson’s much-hyped performance on Q&A was a model of reasonable discussion. As long as the ABC…
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For me, at least, this year’s Australia Day was preceded somewhat significantly two days earlier by a vast four page…
