Guest notes
Conservative notes
Why don’t the Libs fight to win? Imagine that in getting your public affairs news you were restricted to the…
Remembrance notes
Exactly a year ago I was on my way home starting the final stage of recovery from prolonged surgery. Indeed…
Submarine notes
A working sub fleet and crew tomorrow, for 1/2 the price Now we have a new PM, he should look…
Learning notes
A week or so ago my wife thought she might be losing her mind when she heard the late Freddie…
Liberal notes
The future in doubt No election result is a certainty in advance but all the evidence suggests that the federal…
Writer’s notes
Travelling with The Gillian Like any writer waiting on the tarmac I was trying to think of ways to monetise…
Dis-con notes
The UN at work A recent Dis-Con Note, ‘ScoMo’s (recommended) manifesto’, mentioned two international meetings in December pursuing the United…
Kiwi notes
The adoration of Ms Ardern I am just back from a week in New Zealand where my family and I…
Dis-con notes
ScoMo’s (recommended) manifesto Everyone seeking, like myself, to avoid a Labor government must wish Prime Minister Morrison well. However, in…
Racism notes
Taking offence means we all walk on eggshells Recently, a controversial cartoon was drawn of a tennis champion which many…
Conservative notes
The Right is cleaving Take a look at right-of-centre political parties in the Anglosphere. In Canada things are bad, very…
Right-of-return notes
The Great Disrupter For decades the world has infantilised the Palestinians, calling them refugees when they are not refugees; justifying…
Dis-con notes
Does Morrison cut the mustard? The first quality Napoleon Bonaparte sought in his generals was that they were lucky. Scott…
Writer’s notes
On writing Every writer writes an ‘on writing’ piece. So here’s mine. Last week in Melbourne, I went to a…
Liberal notes
At the very moment the federal Liberal party was having another debate over leadership I happened to be launching a…
Reef notes
In for a penny, in for half a billion bucks Okay, here’s an observation that ought to disturb you. Former…
Art Notes
Every now and again, a friend of mine holds a ‘what’s your unpopular opinion?’ discussion in a club we jointly…
Dis-con notes
Are they blind? It is seven months since my last Dis-Con Notes (‘No More Shilly-Shallying’, 2/12/17). Meanwhile the Liberal party…
Hungarian notes
Merkel’s nemesis Before German Chancellor Angela Merkel picked a fight with her Hungarian counterpart Viktor Orbán in 2015 by opening…
Brutopian notes
A few weeks ago I had the privilege to be present at the launch of Kevin Donnelly’s vitally necessary new…
Diversity notes
Abstractionitis revisited In its recently published survey, Leading for Change: A Blueprint for Cultural Diversity and Inclusive Leadership Revisited, the…
Kiwi notes
The Socialist Ardernative New Zealand politics has thrown up some wonderful invective over the years. A favourite of mine originated…
Cricket notes
From little sins big sins grow The Australian cricket team are a bunch of cheats. There is no other way…
Home & away notes
Over the space of a decade or so, a number of young Australians managed to bring themselves forcefully to international…
Cautionary notes
It strikes me sometimes as a fortuitous coincidence that the word communism shares its start with the word compulsion because…
