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Simon Collins
As I write this the Trump inauguration is still three days away, so the US intelligence community still has time…
Brown study
The Sussan Ley scandal highlights the monumental problem facing the Turnbull government in restoring its public standing to anything remotely…
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…
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Integration is backPeter Dutton has signalled that provisional migrants should be treated as temporary residents until they have ‘proven their…
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Integration is backPeter Dutton has signalled that provisional migrants should be treated as temporary residents until they have ‘proven their…
Brown study
Here at the Spectator Australia Electoral Reform Unit, we certainly had our hands full in 2016, what with Brexit, and…
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Integration is backPeter Dutton has signalled that provisional migrants should be treated as temporary residents until they have ‘proven their…
Brown study
My christmas stocking fillers An exciting group of new and emerging writers exploded onto the literary scene in 2016. So,…
Latham’s law
In this era of media lists – such as Fitzy and Wippa counting down the Top 20 Mind-Numbingly Trivial Celebrity…
Australian notes
In her defence of her wretched Human Rights Commission, Gillian Triggs boasted that the Commission has been processing some 22,000…
Australian notes
In her defence of her wretched Human Rights Commission, Gillian Triggs boasted that the Commission has been processing some 22,000…
Simon Collins
Forget Thredbo, Charlotte Pass and Falls Creek; Australia’s best skiing conditions are to be found in Canberra! For reasons which…
Latham’s Law
President Dropkick & The US Confusion Centre When an obscure, unelected committee, rising up from the bottom of Canberra’s bureaucratic…
Latham’s law
I have a confession to make. When late last year, on the ill-fated panel show The Verdict, I publicly declared…
Brown study
Of all the hare-brained ideas that governments come up with, the deal with the US to take refugees from Manus…
Brown study
I have a terrible confession to make. No, it is not that I was a bully at school, or even…
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Kill the Commission: free speech There is nothing that the Australian Human Rights Commission does that cannot be done by…
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Kill the Commission: free speech There is nothing that the Australian Human Rights Commission does that cannot be done by…
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Kill the Commission: free speech There is nothing that the Australian Human Rights Commission does that cannot be done by…
Brown study
The FBI certainly stirred up the US election when it announced it had found more of Hillary Clinton’s emails on…
Simon Collins
I can’t be the only Speccie reader who’s lost sleep thinking about the Crown Resort employees awaiting trial in China.…
Conservative Notes
You’d be hard pressed to be overly optimistic about the state of conservative politics in the developed English-speaking world right…
Brown study
Perhaps all is not lost. There might yet be hope for the education of our youth. Like many people, I…
QC notes
Brandis is right, gleeson is wrong Normally, I would not get involved in disputes concerning politicians, as they should be…
