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Brown Study
The most bizarre feature of the Liberal party’s leadership coup is that the party has not given any explanation as…
Simon Collins
From a One Nation kind of perspective, one of the most inconvenient truths about the Muslim population of modern Australia…
Latham’s Law
When Matt Damon starred in the movie Downsizing earlier this year, he could not have known he was providing a…
Australian notes
In the hour and a half it took me to drive to Sydney on August 23, I listened to what…
Brown study
You may have noticed that, up to now, I have been fairly restrained in what I have written about Malcolm…
Latham’s law
Who would have thought? It turns out Gough Whitlam and Malcolm Fraser were racists. Poor old Gough spent decades in…
Simon Collins
Like many poms with a strong sense of post-colonial entitlement, I took a long hard look at Canada before I…
Brown study
There are a few things I want to get off my chest about politics. Starting at the top, I have…
Brown study
I knew that if I waited long enough I would stumble on an item of public expenditure that was not…
Latham’s law
Just when the health system in inner-Melbourne and Sydney was coming to terms with the psychotic conditions caused by Donald…
Brown study
The outcome of last weekend’s by-elections was the natural result of the Liberal party sending itself spiralling into turmoil when…
Simon Collins
In a few years’ time the only clue that the name Fairfax was ever synonymous with wealth and influence in…
Latham’s law
It was the best news Fairfax ever published: the story of its demise. Yet to listen to the wailing Fairfax…
Brown study
Poor Malcolm Turnbull gets such a bad press that it is good to have an opportunity to congratulate him on…
Latham’s law
Before his death in July 1826, Thomas Jefferson wrote the epitaph for his own gravestone and insisted it carry ‘not…
Dear Paul
Three major articles by the Australian’s editor-at-large Paul Kelly, and Tony Abbott’s even more major Heritage Foundation speech in Washington,…
Brown study
One of the more obvious features of left-leaning luvvies is that they are all stupid. They simply cannot think straight,…
Simon Collins
Like most Australian men I am horrified by reports which attest to the ubiquity of violence against our womenfolk. But…
Latham’s law
Have new communication technologies suddenly become dangerous? I always thought texting on whiz-bang iPhones was a good thing.If my daughter’s…
Brown study
You may not realise it, but you are walking with history, for a Political Scandal of the Third Kind is…
Simon Collins
Some years ago, as a judge on one of adland’s more obscure international awards panels, I had to assess the…
Latham’s law
Every parent knows the problem. An errant child who is always telling lies, whether it’s ‘I didn’t take them’, ‘I…
Brown study
As language is a living thing, a mirror of current but ever-changing social mores, we have added two new definitions…
Latham’s law
The education system used to be so straightforward. But now, with the classics of Western civilisation being chucked into the…
Australian notes
Universities of the closed mind A series of leaked emails reveal the depths of prejudice and groupthink at Australia’s universities.…
