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Going to the dogs Too many politicians are saying to low income and informally educated Australians, ‘why don’t you just…
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Going to the dogs Too many politicians are saying to low income and informally educated Australians, ‘why don’t you just…
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Going to the dogs Too many politicians are saying to low income and informally educated Australians, ‘why don’t you just…
Resistance to Acknowledging Country is futile
As another bleak winter NAIDOC Week draws to a close, let us reflect on the strange ritual that is the…
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Malcolm Turnbull has certainly made a name for himself since he became leader of the Liberal party. The party that…
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Some readers may be wondering what it’s like to vote Labor for the first time. Okay, by ‘vote Labor’ I…
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Now the election is over, here are our Awards for noteworthy service given to the democratic process over the last…
Simon Collins
Currencies will plummet, markets will crash and there will be rioting on the streets of capitals. Followed, perhaps, by the…
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Brexit, 1381 ad, and Turnbull’s election Well, the Brits did it. They defied the warnings and threats from ‘I got…
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Brexit, Del-cons and Trumpkins Later this week it begins. The voters will have their say. First it will happen in…
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I don’t agree with the mainstream media that the election campaign has been dull and boring, except when the media…
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Raise the age for compulsory voting I grind my teeth whenever I see bearded twenty-something men in their hipster gear…
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Raise the age for compulsory voting I grind my teeth whenever I see bearded twenty-something men in their hipster gear…
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Raise the age for compulsory voting I grind my teeth whenever I see bearded twenty-something men in their hipster gear…
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The pundits keep telling us that this is a dull election. But imagine what it would be like without the…
Simon Collins
Whether or not Australians get to vote on the subject of gay marriage later this year, nobody would dispute the…
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I love Malcolm, but where is he when you need him? ‘This isn’t the Malcolm Turnbull Australians thought they…
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No-one should have been surprised when Greens Senator Richard Di Natale was sprung last week for paying his three employees…
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I dropped in the other day to the Sydney Writers’ Festival to hear Stan Grant deliver his autobiographical and sometimes…
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Colin Dillon – Straight shooter In times of shrill complaint, it is worth contemplating the life and career of…
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Colin Dillon – Straight shooter In times of shrill complaint, it is worth contemplating the life and career of…
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Colin Dillon – Straight shooter In times of shrill complaint, it is worth contemplating the life and career of…
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I dropped in the other day to the Sydney Writers’ Festival to hear Stan Grant deliver his autobiographical and sometimes…
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We owe the New York Times a debt of enormous gratitude for exposing Donald Trump as the misogynist and woman…
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I suppose I must be the only person in Australia who has read, re-read and underlined Niki Savva’s The Road…
