Australian Notes

Australian notes

7 February 2015 9:00 am

The remarkable thing about Tony Abbott’s speech to the National Press Club was how unremarkable it was. There were no…

Australian notes

5 February 2015 2:00 pm

The remarkable thing about Tony Abbott’s speech to the National Press Club was how unremarkable it was. There were no…

Australian notes

31 January 2015 9:00 am

The Queen has conferred knighthoods on the Americans Bill Gates and Norman Schwarzkopf. She appointed South Africa’s Nelson Mandela to…

Australian notes

29 January 2015 2:00 pm

The Queen has conferred knighthoods on the Americans Bill Gates and Norman Schwarzkopf. She appointed South Africa’s Nelson Mandela to…

Australian notes

24 January 2015 9:00 am

Baffling that so many observers had so much trouble interpreting the recent Charlie Hebdo cover on which Mohammed is depicted…

Australian notes

22 January 2015 2:00 pm

Baffling that so many observers had so much trouble interpreting the recent Charlie Hebdo cover on which Mohammed is depicted…

Australian notes

17 January 2015 9:00 am

It must have been one of the last cartoons he drew before he was murdered. The editor of Charlie Hebdo…

Australian notes

15 January 2015 2:00 pm

It must have been one of the last cartoons he drew before he was murdered. The editor of Charlie Hebdo…

Australian notes

10 January 2015 9:00 am

If only Tony Abbott could bring the conviction and even eloquence he demonstrated in Baghdad to bear on the Budget…

Australian notes

8 January 2015 2:00 pm

If only Tony Abbott could bring the conviction and even eloquence he demonstrated in Baghdad to bear on the Budget…

Australian notes

13 December 2014 9:00 am

It’s worth repeating. A British Prime Minister (the Earl of Derby) to Queen Victoria: ‘The definition of an Independent Member…

Australian notes

11 December 2014 3:00 pm

It’s worth repeating. A British Prime Minister (the Earl of Derby) to Queen Victoria: ‘The definition of an Independent Member…

Australian notes

29 November 2014 9:00 am

The ABC’s Australian Story (‘Just Call Me Bob’) about the former Prime Minister Robert James Lee Hawke touched on many…

Australian notes

27 November 2014 3:00 pm

The ABC’s Australian Story (‘Just Call Me Bob’) about the former Prime Minister Robert James Lee Hawke touched on many…

Australian Notes

15 November 2014 9:00 am

Right and proper that generous tributes are paid at a memorial service, even if sometimes undeserved or exaggerated. But what…

Australian Notes

13 November 2014 3:00 pm

Right and proper that generous tributes are paid at a memorial service, even if sometimes undeserved or exaggerated. But what…

CO2 notes

8 November 2014 9:00 am

This year the world will enjoy its greatest grain crop on record. Let me say that again. This year the…

CO2 notes

6 November 2014 3:00 pm

This year the world will enjoy its greatest grain crop on record. Let me say that again. This year the…

South African notes

1 November 2014 9:00 am

“Cape Town is a lot like Sydney,” an ex-pat yarpie had assured me. But as I’m driven through the township…

Australian notes

25 October 2014 9:00 am

Among Gough Whitlam’s greatest moments were his acceptance both of his Dismissal in November 1975 and of his overwhelming rejection…

Australian notes

23 October 2014 2:00 pm

Among Gough Whitlam’s greatest moments were his acceptance both of his Dismissal in November 1975 and of his overwhelming rejection…

Libertarian notes

18 October 2014 9:00 am

Since arriving in the Senate on July 1, there are two things I have learned. First, lots of people want…

Libertarian notes

16 October 2014 2:00 pm

Since arriving in the Senate on July 1, there are two things I have learned. First, lots of people want…

Australian notes

11 October 2014 9:00 am

What do we leave behind us when we die, asked the Prime Minister? Our deeds are quickly forgotten. Our goods…

Australian notes

9 October 2014 2:00 pm

What do we leave behind us when we die, asked the Prime Minister? Our deeds are quickly forgotten. Our goods…