London diary
There is one thing Brexit negotiators must fix if Britain really intends to rediscover its Commonwealth. For the last 44…
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Boris Johnson’s Australian charm offensive will not unscramble the egg. Nor will seeking to love-up the old Commonwealth after divorcing…
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July is a wonderful month, blessed by federal parliament not sitting and so temporarily depriving the Turnbull government of opportunities…
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What’s left of Australia’s manufacturing industry needs to get its political hands dirty. If it really wants to survive it…
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The foxes have already been let into the henhouse. Led by the nastiest fox of all, the thuggish, serial law-breaker…
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Guilty. It’s not just the political class wrecking Australia’s economic future. Beside them in the dock are the overpaid corporate…
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It’s one of the few bits of Liberal economic policy left in the budget – and judging by the pathetic…
Whose party is it, anyway?
The writing may be on the wall for those lobbyist Liberal Party factional bosses who have successfully defied the decrees…
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The Liberals’ broad church? In NSW it’s getting thinner on a diet of expulsions and desertions. Remove the nave, the…
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When the Fairfax proselytisers, the Guardian do-gooders, the ABC inner-city trendies and a grab-bag of leftie greens all join with…
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How’s this for the ‘balance and objectivity’ that the United States Studies Centre claims to provide as an ‘objective and…
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It really works! When the big end of town puts its mind to it (along with a few million dollars),…
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It’s a no-brainer. Both economically and politically, only time will tell whether cutting penalty rates will create enough new jobs…
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It’s a no-brainer. Both economically and politically, only time will tell whether cutting penalty rates will create enough new jobs…
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As punishment for voting last week to correct (in part) his damaging job-destroying two year legislated delay in fully implementing…
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As punishment for voting last week to correct (in part) his damaging job-destroying two year legislated delay in fully implementing…
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At last a rational solution to Australia’s government-generated economically-crazy job-destroying energy crisis? Or just more pie in the sky from…
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At last a rational solution to Australia’s government-generated economically-crazy job-destroying energy crisis? Or just more pie in the sky from…
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It’s not just a headwind; there’s a gale coming. The ‘global headwinds’ blamed by the Turnbull government for last week’s…
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It’s not just a headwind; there’s a gale coming. The ‘global headwinds’ blamed by the Turnbull government for last week’s…
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The cost effect on the real world of the ideological fairyland of anti-coal campaigners is now becoming worryingly evident. Not…
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The cost effect on the real world of the ideological fairyland of anti-coal campaigners is now becoming worryingly evident. Not…
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It’s not just the money cost of Senator Hinch’s amateurish meddling with legislation like the Australian Building and Construction Commission,…
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It’s not just the money cost of Senator Hinch’s amateurish meddling with legislation like the Australian Building and Construction Commission,…
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‘Free beer for all the wharfies when the red revolution comes’ When Chris Corrigan’s 1998 stevedore revolution changed the…