Guest notes
Euro wuflu notes
Lonely Goatherd immunity While Australia has spent much of 2020 establishing Iron Curtain border regimes, Europe’s bewildering and ever-changing internal…
Euro notes
Half-hearted Tory Spare a thought for the UK’s embattled lamb producers. How long will it be, they are wondering, until…
Musical notes
Trumps like us, baby we were born to run Mr Bruce Springsteen has, depending on how one views these things,…
Covid notes
India and the missed opportunity of HCQ The coronavirus pandemic has had rapidly shifting and often contested storylines on infectiousness,…
Covid notes
The Pied Piper of Pandemic Porn ‘Fool me once,’ say Americans, ‘shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.’…
Farewell notes
Today on a day of unsurpassable spring glory my wife and I visited the onetime home of her maternal great-grandparents,…
China notes
Ducking Peking ASoviet-era joke had someone visiting the part of the commu- nist bureaucracy which issued permission to move your…
Covid notes
I’m at risk, but I don’t want lockdowns It’s hard to credit in a democracy like Australia, but five and…
Trade notes
Boris picks a real Tory In his two years as prime minister, Tony Abbott achieved more to help Australia’s exporters…
Woke notes
Chinese aggression and the New Cold War The elderly woman in the ground floor flat was the janitor of the…
Lockdown notes
A good war Who could ever have imagined that the greatest act of rebellion in the second decade of the…
Euro notes
How dangerous for Boris is Nigel? The first anniversary of Boris Johnson’s prime ministership didn’t bring him good news. Firstly,…
Dis-con notes
Reshuffle revisited On 5 July we learned that the Minister for Finance, Senator Mathias Cormann, will leave parliament towards the…
Cultural notes
My answer to China? The Anglosphere. ‘Enough buying from China! Why do we need their stuff? It’s s—t quality anyway.…
Political notes
We must resist the American Left’s dangerous race-based lies I have been following the rise of identity politics for 30…
Cultural notes
While the West slept President Kennedy wrote a thesis in his last year at university that was later published under…
Euro notes
How DFAT (yet again) let us down Foreign Minister Marise Payne’s robust initiative in leading the call for an independent…
Cold war notes
In a truly excellent article in the Australian, Stephen Loosley reminded us – in my case rather appropriately – of…
Dystopian notes
Albion is toast Australia: will you take me? You’ve always been high on my list of escape destinations when everything…
Dis-con notes
Get a wriggle on, ScoMo Previous Dis-Con Notes (25/04/20 and 16/05/20) proposed eleven policy reforms for Prime Minister Morrison’s consideration.…
US notes
Can Joe Biden prove more popular than Hillary? In the current climate of massive disruption in all countries, political predictions…
Dis-Con notes
Well done, Angus Six weeks ago I advised the prime minister to undertake a ministerial reshuffle. Three weeks ago I…
Euro notes
Two countries divided by a common pandemic In late 1970, British prime minister Ted Heath learnt that his Australian counterpart…
Euro notes
Europe’s bogus bogeyman The coronavirus pandemic is proving a tough time for the Left. The all-consuming focus on a real…
Movie buff notes
Green ain’t green Normally I waste many hours of my working day sitting in a big red chamber while something…
