Australian Letters
Soft on crime Sir: One of my favourite Spectator Australia columns is Peter Coleman’s. His insightful and calm articulation can…
A delicate diplomatic dance
‘Few international problems in the postwar period have proved as difficult for Australia as the development of a friendly and…
Cover 23 November 2013 AU
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Professor Strange-palm
Dinosaurs, disgruntled employees, Chinese spies, Titanic enterprises, JFK rip-offs, unpaid taxes, smacking Senate bottoms, strange circular self-generating taxation schemes and…
Cover 16 November 2013 AU
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Slaying the beast
They stabbed it with their steely knives, but they just can’t kill the beast,’ sang the Eagles in ‘Hotel California’.…
Cover 9 November 2013 AU
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Australian Letters
Pilfering politicians Sir: On first reading the article ‘Put the expenses “scandal” in perspective’ (2 November) I was in sleeping-dog-disturbing…
Labor’s penance
And so the sins of the forefathers shall be visited upon the sons, or so it must feel like to…
Cover 2 November 2013 AU
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Grim reading
Left-wing dogma is destroying the literary skills of an entire generation. Such is the depressing conclusion of a recent report…
Cover 26 October 2013 AU
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Do you feel lucky, Bill?
I know what you’re thinking. You’re thinking, ‘Will he really go to a double dissolution?’ Now to tell you the…
Don’t silence Mr Brave
Almost exactly a year ago in these pages we wrote about John Ruddick’s worthwhile efforts to draw attention to the…
Cover 12 October 2013 AU
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Cover 5 October 2013 AU
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Triumph in Jakarta
Walking into the gilt opulence of the ‘Credentials Room’ of the Istana Merdeka palace in Jakarta, our new Prime Minister…
Letters
Sam’s Abbott, not Anton’s Sir: Sam Roggeveen’s article (‘Abbott is not a neocon,’ 28 September) is a useful analysis of…
A changing climate
When we say the climate is changing, we do not mean that man-made global warming is destroying planet Earth. We…
Cover 28 September 2013 AU
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Cover 21 September 2013 AU
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Global warming pause
Given that the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change now apparently acknowledges that an unexpected and unexplainable ‘pause’ in…
Calling Jon Faine
With Tony Abbott’s stunning election victory, it is time that the Australian media had a comprehensive purging of those within…
Cover 14 September 2013 AU
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Cover 7 September 2013 AU
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