Cover 10 January 2015 AU
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Australian Letters
No Christmas Sir: To follow up on Chris Ashton’s ‘the real War on Christmas’ (Spec Aus Christmas Special) might I…
Cover 3 January 2015 AU
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Rebooting the government
Among the many dubious gifts the digital age has endowed us with is an abundance of new ways of expressing…
Australian letters
Gay Marriage Sir, I don’t give a tinker’s curse about gay marriage (Brendan O’Neill 6 Dec.) and am tired to…
Morality tales
‘And so this is Christmas, and what have you done?’ A question, originally set to an agreeably festive tune by…
Cover 13 December 2014 AU
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The art of persuasion
‘Our job is to simplify, to tear away the unrelated, to pluck out the weeds that are smothering the product…
Australian Letters
Friend or foe? Sir: The editorial piece ( Spectator Australia, 29 Nov.) and following article by James Allan deal broadly…
Cover 6 December 2014 AU
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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…
