Guest notes
Western civ notes
Ramsay Centre’s Name Earlier this year, Dr Bella d’Abrera admirably drew attention to the backlash against the Ramsay Centre for…
iPad notes
Distractions I sat nervously in the waiting area, tensely anticipating a diagnosis. After five minutes that seemed like five years,…
Satirical notes
Night of the Black Hands It was a dark mid-March weekend night in Adelaide. The fine citizens of South Australia’s…
High horse notes
For me, at least, one of the less edifying sights of recent times was watching Australia’s Prime Minister and his…
Neo-Marxist notes
I can best explain my temporary absence from these pages by saying that I agreed to write a ‘short’ book…
Dietary notes
Flopsy, mopsy, cottontail & peter Remember Beatrix Potter’s little rabbits that live in constant fear of Farmer Brown? Well they…
New Year’s musings
Love me do I think we all understand how ‘user pays’ works. Say you go to the local municipal swimming…
Arch-conservative notes
A devoutly Catholic Polish couple I know who came to Australia thirty years ago to escape the extreme unpleasantness of…
Seasonal notes
Abbott and Trump are right It is one year since Tony Abbott, recalling the role of the Australian Light…
Jolly notes
La la land ‘Tis the season to be jolly, Fa-la-la-la-la, la-la-la-la, Don we now our gay apparel … Oops,…
Twilight notes
Economic, political and diplomatic decline Australia under the Howard government was riding high, a nation almost uniquely debt-free, well governed,…
Teacher’s notes
School makes you smarter In the most popular TED talk of all time, Sir Ken Robinson makes the case that…
Dis-con notes
No more shilly-shallying When Parliament sits on Monday, it will (I assume) be greeted by another Newspoll. The last one…
Hawaiian notes
Under Hawaiian eyes The Pearl Harbour memorial to the 1,177 American sailors and marines (1,102 still entombed) who lost their…
Rhetorical notes
Some decades ago in Britain a better than average advertising copywriter came up with the following rather clever slogan: ‘Tern:…
Citizenship notes
It could have all been so much easier… Whatever the deal done by the Coalition and Labor, there always was…
New York notes
Tantamount to a speechcrime New York is wonderfully offensive. Offensive to nature with its gravity-defying towers. Offensive to the tragic,…
Pilgrim’s notes
Black paintings and missing uncle bill You know you live in relatively peaceful times when an insurrection leads to little…
Trump notes
Trump’s America is doing better than it seems The other week I was trying to elicit some interest in politics…
SSM notes
How would you react if you saw a somewhat naïve and impressionable friend about to step off the edge of…
Dis-con notes
Toughen up, snowflakes Another parliamentary sitting week has passed, with nothing done to confront the fate that has been staring…
Trump notes
Lefties on their knees Just when you thought political life in the United States simply could not become more polarised,…
Yes/No notes
At least it shows we don’t need compulsory voting Australians are having their two bob’s worth on same-sex marriage.The first…
Identarian notes
It is hard if not impossible to express my sympathy for Neil Brown adequately having taken full note of his…
Assassins notes
Hashish, jihadists and the rule of fear There is a fifth column in our midst. People who have infiltrated our…
