How many like me?
So to all those Liberal MPs, and perhaps to Barnaby Joyce and the Nats, here’s something you need to consider,…
Australian notes
Brexit, 1381 ad, and Turnbull’s election Well, the Brits did it. They defied the warnings and threats from ‘I got…
Australian notes
Brexit, Del-cons and Trumpkins Later this week it begins. The voters will have their say. First it will happen in…
The Super Debate (cont’d)
One of the joys of writing for this publication is that it is such a broad church. And that’s the…
Diary
Around the world in 280 hours for work. Jules Verne would have been proud of me. In Britain, I arrived…
Elementary, my dear Henry
The superannuation changes are clearly retrospective
Super bad
The Turnbull government is hellbent on introducing changes that are anti-Liberal
Leaving the dance with the one who brought you
Turnbull’s Liberals have forgotten a wise old adage
Del-Conmania
Have you got what it takes to join the latest ‘irrelevant’ conservative political group?
Flagging interest
Given the choice, the Kiwis may end up preferring the Union Jack after all
Fool’s gold
The Australian Law Reform Commission is wrong.
Chasing the latte vote
Across the anglosphere, right of centre parties are ignoring their core supporters
Betting on, er, Trump
The appeal of a rude, narcissistic reality TV star cannot be under-estimated
The road to bigger government spending
‘Off the table’ is no bad thing
Triggs-er warning
The president of the Human Rights Commission must live in a moral galaxy far, far away
Motherhood, apple pie and reform
Changes are not necessarily genuine reform
Pierre’s progeny
The return of a Trudeau promises the start of a Canadian dynasty, and a lot of bouncing taxpayers’ cheques
Cost benefit analysis of a coup
Australia needs to take a careful look at its new PM-slaying political culture
Turnbull vs evolution
Conservative antipathy to Malcolm Turnbull isn’t an economic question, it’s an evolutionary one
I come to praise Tony, not to bury him
Despite the flaws, Tony Abbott was a proper conservative
Raving right-wingery?
Run through the Abbott government’s charge sheet and there’s not much evidence of the ‘rabid’ right
It’s the swill, stupid
The Australian parliamentary system is blocking much-needed
Wrong diagnosis, again
Raising the GST will make the problem worse, not better
Steyin’ alive
What are the odds that one of the world’s best political commentators happens to be an expert on the songs…
Mission impossible
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