Neil Brown

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3 October 2020 9:00 am

The nomination of Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the US Supreme Court is a sensible one.  She must have a…

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26 September 2020 9:00 am

Here at the Spectator Australia Biological Research Unit, together with our research partners at the Wuhan Bat, Rat and Snake…

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19 September 2020 9:00 am

Say what you want to about them, but I like pandemics. I particularly like Covid-19. Sort of. What I mean…

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12 September 2020 9:00 am

You really have to live in Melbourne to appreciate the depressing and disturbing  atmosphere that embraces it at the present.…

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5 September 2020 9:00 am

In this dull, dispiriting time we have to get our humour where we can find it, no matter in how…

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29 August 2020 9:00 am

The Spectator Australia has always prided itself on being first with the news. However, there is one publishing milestone we…

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15 August 2020 9:00 am

Well, Arthur Sinodinos turned out to be a damp squib, as I predicted. It was bad enough to denigrate the…

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8 August 2020 9:00 am

I don’t like praising politicians, but I feel Scott Morrison and his colleagues and even the premiers have been treated…

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1 August 2020 9:00 am

The Spectator Australia Literary Investigations Unit is renowned for uncovering many long-lost masterpieces, but few match the significance of its…

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25 July 2020 9:00 am

The Spectator Australia book club has saved our members hundreds of dollars by recommending books that you should not buy…

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17 July 2020 11:00 pm

‘Daddy, what did you do in the Great Pandemic?’ People are getting ready to answer this question for when things…

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11 July 2020 9:00 am

Since my column confessing to a lifetime of white supremacy and worshipping at the altar of colonialism, many readers have…

Brown on white guilt

27 June 2020 9:00 am

I can’t sleep because of the guilt. I have not been able to do so since I was 16. That…

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13 June 2020 9:00 am

You might think that the law is old, stodgy, stuck in the past and opposed to reform. It is all…

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6 June 2020 9:00 am

The Liberal party certainly had a close shave in getting rid of Malcolm Turnbull before the dreaded Covid-19 pandemic hit…

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18 April 2020 9:00 am

I seem to be the only person in this country who is not cock-a-hoop about the lavish government package to…

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11 April 2020 9:00 am

The Liberal Party Economic Research Unit, operating from its bijou office in Karl Marx House in Canberra, has been responsible…

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4 April 2020 9:00 am

What with all the monumental stuff-ups by the public authorities in the campaign against coronavirus, it is not surprising that…

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28 March 2020 9:00 am

As you know, the Spectator Australia Social Research Unit, operating behind heavily fortified premises in Canberra, has long been involved…

Biden is it

21 March 2020 9:00 am

Give me sleepiness

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14 March 2020 9:00 am

As Chairman of Apologies Inc. I am pleased to report that we have had another bumper year and that business…

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29 February 2020 9:00 am

As is obvious from recent events, we live in times where it is not enough to disagree with someone and…

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21 February 2020 10:00 pm

Scott Morrison may not realise it, but he has just been thrown a lifeline by the High Court that could…

Masochism and sadism

15 February 2020 9:00 am

STOP PRESS We have just had to stop the presses that were printing the new edition of Brown’s Political Dictionary…

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7 February 2020 10:00 pm

For a while there, I thought that my credentials on climate change were pretty good. As I explained to my…