Australian Notes
Australian notes
Shorten must be stopped For once, Malcolm Turnbull’s current travails are not all his own fault. The Prime Minister could…
Australian notes
On Noel and Richo Last week in the Australian Noel Pearson wrote a piece responding to Graham Richardson’s earlier claim…
Australian notes
On my first visit to Darwin twenty odd years ago to cover the annual Aboriginal art awards a number of…
Australian notes
Inequality is the human condition, Bill Whaddaya mean by ‘tackling inequality’, Bill? Don’t you know that inequality is built…
Australian notes
Sensible centre is for suckers I am going to point to the US, the UK and modern mainstream protestant…
Australian notes
On expertise The Wealth of Nations, by the Scottish Enlightenment thinker Adam Smith, is a great book. When you read…
Australian notes
Malleable expectations Gary Johns is a fellow Speccie contributor. He’s also a friend. In fact, next month my wife and…
Australian notes
LINO takeover Did that curious phone call really mean I was to be dragged before some Liberal inquisition to suffer…
Australian notes
The new aristocrats Listen these days to some of the world’s elite politicians, commentators and officials pontificate and you’d think…
Australian Notes
Let’s keep Triggs for the fun of it I wouldn’t trust Malcolm Turnbull or George Brandis to pick what type…
Australian notes
The ABC of ESPN I confess to being something of a sports addict. I like playing and watching competitive sports,…
Australian notes
Diversity’s hypocrites Let’s say that you’re a ‘diversity’ freak. What you want in life is to take some group X,…
Australian Notes
Well, that was another depressingly terrible week for free speech in this country as political correctness and identity politics stayed…
Australian notes
The Human Rights Commission must go Described by its leading victim, Bill Leak, as a ‘rogue totalitarian unit’, the Human…
Australian notes
Bill Leak used to say that Picasso changed his life. He was, he said, ‘a troubled youth’ of 16 years…
Election notes
Malcolm, take note… As the dust settles on the Western Australian election result, and Labor’s Mark McGowan sweeping to office…
Australian notes
When I was offered a full-time job here in 1994, my understanding of this country was limited to say the…
Australian notes
When I was offered a full-time job here in 1994, my understanding of this country was limited to say the…
Australian notes
‘Malcolm Turnbull is Jewish.’ This was one of the newer Palestinian banners held high at the anti-Israel, anti-Netanyahu rally…
Australian notes
‘Malcolm Turnbull is Jewish.’ This was one of the newer Palestinian banners held high at the anti-Israel, anti-Netanyahu rally…
Australian notes
Tim wilson is wrong In this past Saturday’s Inquirer page, Liberal MP Tim Wilson – former Commissioner in the Australian…
Australian notes
Invasion of the farm snatchers As part of its curious strategy of attacking its base, the Turnbull government seems intent…
Australian notes
I’ve just returned from my fifth trip to Israel in the last decade. It prompted me to recall a conversation…
Australian notes
Malcolm the Fission Fiasco I don’t agree with all those many right-of-centre commentators who think the current Prime Minister, Mr…
Australian notes
In her defence of her wretched Human Rights Commission, Gillian Triggs boasted that the Commission has been processing some 22,000…
