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Time to switch off SBS

4 February 2017 9:00 am

The impending retirement of ABC chairman, Jim Spigelman, presents Malcolm Turnbull with an ideal opportunity to shake up the country’s…

Teaching history

4 February 2017 9:00 am

Australia Day always brings out the whingers, the whiners, the crazy Invasion Day anti-nationalists and the almost equally crazy flag-draped…

Dumbing down NSW

4 February 2017 9:00 am

What do Mary Durack, Christina Stead, A. B. Facey, Xavier Herbert, Les Murray, Thomas Keneally and Clive James have in…

Addicted to outrage

4 February 2017 9:00 am

Outrage is the new normal. Sparking outrage − for whatever reason − is the new sin. The number of lazy…

More divisive than Trump

4 February 2017 9:00 am

Often, the tone words are delivered in is equally, if not more important, than the words themselves. It’s hardly surprising,…

Indigenous indulgences

2 February 2017 3:00 pm

I acknowledge the Aboriginal peoples who are the Traditional Custodians of the land on which I live. I pay my…

Time to switch off SBS

2 February 2017 3:00 pm

The impending retirement of ABC chairman, Jim Spigelman, presents Malcolm Turnbull with an ideal opportunity to shake up the country’s…

Addicted to outrage

2 February 2017 3:00 pm

Outrage is the new normal. Sparking outrage − for whatever reason − is the new sin. The number of lazy…

Teaching history

2 February 2017 3:00 pm

Australia Day always brings out the whingers, the whiners, the crazy Invasion Day anti-nationalists and the almost equally crazy flag-draped…

More divisive than Trump

2 February 2017 3:00 pm

Often, the tone words are delivered in is equally, if not more important, than the words themselves. It’s hardly surprising,…

Dumbing down NSW

2 February 2017 3:00 pm

What do Mary Durack, Christina Stead, A. B. Facey, Xavier Herbert, Les Murray, Thomas Keneally and Clive James have in…

Clothes maketh the MP

28 January 2017 9:00 am

Like many women watching Donald Trump’s swearing in as the 45th President of the United States of America, I held…

Turnbull is toast

28 January 2017 9:00 am

Most people are bemused when I predict that Malcolm Turnbull won’t be prime minister by the end of the year.…

Vulgarian? Populist? Brawler?

28 January 2017 9:00 am

The inauguration is over and we now have the most unlikely of US presidents. A complete outsider to politics and…

Stung!

28 January 2017 9:00 am

Centrelink – as everyone in Australia knows – shat the bed last month, leaving the government (and particularly Christian Porter)…

Lefty laughs

28 January 2017 9:00 am

‘Why doesn’t the Left do humour?’ I asked a left-wing friend. ‘Why is it only conservatives who know how to…

Business/Robbery etc

28 January 2017 9:00 am

It’s not just a headwind; there’s a gale coming. The ‘global headwinds’ blamed by the Turnbull government for last week’s…

Clothes maketh the MP

26 January 2017 3:00 pm

Like many women watching Donald Trump’s swearing in as the 45th President of the United States of America, I held…

Stung!

26 January 2017 3:00 pm

Centrelink – as everyone in Australia knows – shat the bed last month, leaving the government (and particularly Christian Porter)…

Lefty laughs

26 January 2017 3:00 pm

‘Why doesn’t the Left do humour?’ I asked a left-wing friend. ‘Why is it only conservatives who know how to…

Turnbull is toast

26 January 2017 3:00 pm

Most people are bemused when I predict that Malcolm Turnbull won’t be prime minister by the end of the year.…

Business/Robbery etc

26 January 2017 3:00 pm

It’s not just a headwind; there’s a gale coming. The ‘global headwinds’ blamed by the Turnbull government for last week’s…

Turnbull’s Labor dream

21 January 2017 9:00 am

In 1993, Malcolm Turnbull was at a crossroads. Paul Keating had given the well-known journalist, lawyer, banker and republican his…

Ruing the day

21 January 2017 9:00 am

Here comes Australia Day again and with it, like professional wailers preceding a Sicilian funeral, the chorus of media penitents…

Truth verboten

21 January 2017 9:00 am

This time last year, the German media lost the confidence of the German people. News of the mass New Year’s…