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Anthony Albanese’s republican sympathies were a matter of public record when a Voice to Parliament wasn’t even a whisper in…
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‘Why can’t a woman be more like a man? complains Henry Higgins in My Fair Lady, a musical whose title…
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I read in the Australian last week that the Queensland parliament is considering criminalising stealthing. And no, that’s not a…
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Sport has always played a big part in Australian life, but in the interests of diversity it would be wrong…
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Coined, as it was, by a dead white man whose oeuvre is considered one of the crowning achievements of Western…
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It’s too soon to say whether President Biden’s response to the carnage in Tulsa, Uvalde and Buffalo (‘For God’s sake,…
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I have a confession to make. Despite voting for an Australian Republic in 1999, and despite making an ad arguing…
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I’m starting this column on the eve of the election, so you have me at a disadvantage. But not much…
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Are conservative journalists more endangered than polar bears? Unlike the habitat of the world’s largest land carnivore, the landscape across…
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The failure of Russian forces to achieve their Ukrainian objectives is said to have surprised nobody more than their commander-in-chief.…
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Is the woke tide finally starting to turn? One aspect of the mainstream media’s coverage of the Ukraine crisis might…
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According to our National Archives, the aim of the Immigration Restriction Act, aka the White Australia Policy, was ‘to limit…
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Prime ministers rarely lose elections by bungling a single issue. An obvious benefit of the four-year term is that if…
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I’m thinking about acquiring a drug habit. As a New South Wales Seniors Card carrier I may have left it…
Breadgate: let them eat wholegrain
In recent weeks it’s been tempting to look for similarities between the re-election prospects of Boris Johnson and Scott Morrison.…
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If a week is a long time in politics, two months is a geological epoch, during which not just goalposts…
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Even in Australian publications of a conspicuously conservative disposition, it has been some time since any respected pundit has suggested,…
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I am writing this in Old South Wales, in the visitor suite of my mother’s assisted living facility. When I…
