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So much has been written about the irresponsible extravagance of the Budget that it is difficult to be original. It…
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Labor can’t dig its way out of anti-coal hysteria Driving home from the Upper Hunter by-election on Saturday night a…
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Renewables & China’s takeover of our electricity grid As China expands its influence globally under the Belt and Road program,…
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Big government bounces back Despite its spending spree in the Budget, the federal government would do well to remember that…
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Bishop Long: just plain wrong When looking at the political world of Woke, we can’t discount the foolishness of religious…
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Australia’s Representatives: a new party to reclaim democracy We know that we live in a genuine democracy when, during a…
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The Dick Denniss Doctrine When Newcastle was founded in 1801, known initially as the Coal Harbour Penal Settlement, the convicts…
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The demonisation of men Much of the current political campaign about women is actually an expression of Left-feminist hatred of…
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Here at Politics Central (motto: vote early, vote often) we have been in a state of unbelievable stress over the…
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The Canberra story the media won’t tell you The media loves to generalise and the media loves to misrepresent. In…
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Time for a new centre-right party? Don’t you find it odd that many of the people now clamouring for some…
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We are all in this together, so I have been agonising over what more I can do to get our…
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Smiling Prince of Victoria Even in these authoritarian times, life can still be unpredictable. I was in Melbourne recently and,…
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Bullocks As you drive into our nation’s beef capital you are greeted by a statue of a bull emblazoned with…
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Rudd fancies himself as Metternich The latest edition of Foreign Affairs, the American foreign policy journal, contains yet another article…
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If Australia had not been blessed with its small black community, we would have had to invent them. And we…
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Here at the Australian Transaction Reports and Analysis Centre (AUSTRAC) we pride ourselves on the laser-like scrutiny we give to…
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Fortunately, I came clean long before the US election and said that Trump would lose and probably should. It became…
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Scott Morrison must have taken leave of his senses. His change to the national anthem, to delete ‘we are young…
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Here is a rag bag collection of events and attitudes of the last twelve months. As we used to say…
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Covid-19 and anti-Semitism In the face of rising anti-Semitism in Australia and the disruptive economic and social impact of Covid-19,…
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I am glad that at long last the ABC has exposed the toxic sexual atmosphere that exists in Parliament House,…
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The Spectator Australia Diplomatic Research Unit has laboured away in secret for years on projects too sensitive to mention in…
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The ten per cent One of the chief complaints of the – now almost forgotten – Occupy Wall Street movement…
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I suppose two fundamental departures from traditional Liberal party positions in a week or so is about par for the…
