What is a classified document, anyway?
What is a classified document? Donald Trump seems to have lots of them — and the FBI sure wants them back.…
Silencing Salman Rushdie
Salman Rushdie, award-winning author and figure of fury to the Iranian regime, has been stabbed yesterday while giving a lecture…
The Liberals’ worst enemy: themselves
Reading Morning Double Shot Editor Terry Barnes’ piece on Friday made me think of the history of the Liberal party and how,…
Amnesty International’s shame
While writer Myroslav Marynovych was a political prisoner of the USSR from 1977-87, he received letters from supporters who were…
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Showdown at okay coral
Figures released last week show record coral cover on the Great Barrier Reef. It is hardly a surprise that its…
Brown study
Here at the Burkina Faso embassy to the United Nations, we have been working tirelessly on the most significant inquiry…
Preparing for war
This is not a book for anyone complacent about the China challenge, yet it should be compulsory reading for everyone…
Summiteers, prepare
Your time approaches
Riddikulus reef-dementors
The death of the Great Barrier has been greatly exaggerated
Debasing the base
Conservatives have moderates thrust upon them
The orange man cometh
Trump tightens his grip on the GOP
Taiwan tantrum
President Xi has succeeded only in projecting weakness
Fertility matters
What’s going on with birth rates?
Embracing the flag
Self-loathing Greens should learn from India’s Muslims
Trash and treasure
It’s cheering to see that the new head of Melbourne’s Arts Centre is Karen Quinlan. For years now, she has…
Pandemic power grab
Authoritarian rule will return unless prevented constitutionally
Aussie Life
‘Give it up for the band!’ cried Van Morrison from the stage at King John’s castle in Limerick the other…
Language
As the contest to replace Boris Johnson draws towards its protracted close, we should remember that many of the original…
Epigram
Our Marriage Soundtrack I think of our marriage quite often. I think of the music as well. It started with…
Watering
In the hot, dry summer of 1976, I was working as a gardening student at Arboretum Kalmthout in Belgium. The…
High life
An F. Scott Fitzgerald biographer by the name of David S. Brown refers to America’s promotion of deviancy (my words)…
Grade expectations
When A-level results are published next week, we will find out if the government has made any progress in stemming…
Bridge
To paraphrase E.L. Wisty, the late, great Peter Cook’s alter ego, ‘Some people are born lazy, some become lazy and…
Trock and awe
Louise Levene on the male ballet troupe that realised the ballerinas have all the best lines
