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If only Tony Abbott could bring the conviction and even eloquence he demonstrated in Baghdad to bear on the Budget…
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It’s worth repeating. A British Prime Minister (the Earl of Derby) to Queen Victoria: ‘The definition of an Independent Member…
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It’s worth repeating. A British Prime Minister (the Earl of Derby) to Queen Victoria: ‘The definition of an Independent Member…
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The ABC’s Australian Story (‘Just Call Me Bob’) about the former Prime Minister Robert James Lee Hawke touched on many…
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The ABC’s Australian Story (‘Just Call Me Bob’) about the former Prime Minister Robert James Lee Hawke touched on many…
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Right and proper that generous tributes are paid at a memorial service, even if sometimes undeserved or exaggerated. But what…
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Right and proper that generous tributes are paid at a memorial service, even if sometimes undeserved or exaggerated. But what…
Don’s Party Tricks
How Donald Horne went from a flamboyant fun-loving Tory to a herald of the new age of Whitlam
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Among Gough Whitlam’s greatest moments were his acceptance both of his Dismissal in November 1975 and of his overwhelming rejection…
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Among Gough Whitlam’s greatest moments were his acceptance both of his Dismissal in November 1975 and of his overwhelming rejection…
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What do we leave behind us when we die, asked the Prime Minister? Our deeds are quickly forgotten. Our goods…
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What do we leave behind us when we die, asked the Prime Minister? Our deeds are quickly forgotten. Our goods…
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Tony Abbott was right. As I hurried along Phillip Street in Sydney the other Sunday afternoon to the service in…
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Tony Abbott was right. As I hurried along Phillip Street in Sydney the other Sunday afternoon to the service in…
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The Quadrant dinner in Sydney was held in ‘a semi-secure, undisclosed location.’ Or so Roger Kimball, tongue-in-cheek, blogged back to…
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The Quadrant dinner in Sydney was held in ‘a semi-secure, undisclosed location.’ Or so Roger Kimball, tongue-in-cheek, blogged back to…
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You lookin’ for Joe?’ asked the road-worker, probably one of Joe’s constituents, as I parked and cast around for the…
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You lookin’ for Joe?’ asked the road-worker, probably one of Joe’s constituents, as I parked and cast around for the…
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At first Moscow dubbed ‘unacceptable’ Tony Abbott’s brief speeches in Parliament and elsewhere on the downing of the Malaysian airliner…
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At first Moscow dubbed ‘unacceptable’ Tony Abbott’s brief speeches in Parliament and elsewhere on the downing of the Malaysian airliner…
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Forget about a double dissolution. Tony Abbott knows it would not only help Clive Palmer. It would help Billy Shorten…
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Forget about a double dissolution. Tony Abbott knows it would not only help Clive Palmer. It would help Billy Shorten…
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‘We have the full range of politics here tonight — from the hard Left to the soft Left.’ The ABC’s…
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‘We have the full range of politics here tonight — from the hard Left to the soft Left.’ The ABC’s…
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When bombed in England bluff Bob Menzies Gave way to paranoiac frenzies; And other news like this to gladden The…
