Advising Abbott
All of a sudden the world and his pet poodle purport to have crucial advice for Tony Abbott, as the…
Australian Letters
Creative writing Sir: When Geoffrey Robertson gets it wrong he is calamitous. He ends his Diary note defending ‘a young…
Cover 29 November 2014 AU
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An avalanche of achievements
Under what strange law of nature is it that the more successful a political party is, the further it slumps…
Cover 22 November 2014 AU
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Cover 15 November 2014 AU
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G’day G20
Where the United Nation’s tends to wallow in popstar navel-gazing, climate change self-flagellation and tedious bouts of Israel-bashing, it is…
Australian Letters
Well-meaning Whitlam Sir: Over recent months we have been subjected to an unprecedented amount of vainglory from the ALP and…
Farming carbon
And so the great farming nation that rode to prosperity on the sheep’s back and through harvesting wheat now looks…
Cover 8 November 2014 AU
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FPEFPM
The title of Australia’s First Popularly Elected Female Prime Minister is still up for grabs, and the obvious two contenders…
Cover 1 November 2014 AU
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Whitewashing Whitlam
The tears flowed in time for the seven o’clock news, a bizarre long march all the way from new parliament…
Cover 25 October 2014 AU
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Australian letters
Cultured Brisbane Sir: Re Culture Buff 11 October. One sore point. I could do without the patronising remark about Brisbane…
Getting shirty
Several recent events highlight the fragile faultlines between jingoism, patriotism and national security; a fissure that the Left are desperate…
Cover 18 October 2014 AU
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Redeeming Joe
There is a grain of truth (for once) in Julia Gillard’s assertion that for Peter Costello ‘it was easy to…
Cover 11 October 2014 AU
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We are all Israelis now
‘ISIS and Hamas are branches of the same poisonous tree,’ asserted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu last week in a…
Cover 4 October 2014 AU
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Silver fern leaf
The extraordinary victory of John Key and his National party in New Zealand’s recent election came as a relief to…
Cover 27 September 2014 AU
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Australian Letters
Waiting to die Sir: Forgive my delay, only getting around to reading the UK content of the 12 July issue…
Burkean activism
‘For those who are political advocates within Palestine itself, I will never know the bravery that comes with putting your…
