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Dishlickers’ delight
‘The world has gone mad. Donald Trump is president of the United States and now Reverend Fred Nile is strolling…
Laughing at the devil
‘Prison did not touch me,’ declares Pussy Riot’s Maria ‘Masha’ Alyokhina, raising her eyebrows with a sardonic smirk. I am…
Business/Robbery etc
It’s not just the money cost of Senator Hinch’s amateurish meddling with legislation like the Australian Building and Construction Commission,…
Laughing at the devil
‘Prison did not touch me,’ declares Pussy Riot’s Maria ‘Masha’ Alyokhina, raising her eyebrows with a sardonic smirk. I am…
Crown princes and Russian spies
THIS is a confession of sorts. Since the rise of Trump, I’ve been sneering along with the best of them…
Post-truth, and other such falsehoods
In the weeks that followed first Brexit and then Donald Trump’s election to the US Presidency it seemed that many…
A thousand words
Humour is not a feature one normally associates with a National Press Club address. I was surprised and somewhat humbled…
Love and marriage
The Fairfax-reading, ABC-viewing middle classes are getting rattled. In Victoria, 2,400 extra police officers are to be employed to help…
A thousand words
Humour is not a feature one normally associates with a National Press Club address. I was surprised and somewhat humbled…
Post-truth, and other such falsehoods
In the weeks that followed first Brexit and then Donald Trump’s election to the US Presidency it seemed that many…
Love and marriage
The Fairfax-reading, ABC-viewing middle classes are getting rattled. In Victoria, 2,400 extra police officers are to be employed to help…
Crown princes and Russian spies
THIS is a confession of sorts. Since the rise of Trump, I’ve been sneering along with the best of them…
Coercive conformity
Is there any joint lesson to be learned from so-called Brexit and the unlikely-seeming elevation of Donald Trump to the…
Our grandads didn’t die for this
It is, perhaps, a poor reflection of our times when a historian feels compelled to remind others that the Nazis…
Playing the identity card
‘And the union people crawled away…’- Billy Joel, Allentown ‘Funny that Billy just endorsed Hillary. He must have forgotten…
Business/Robbery etc
‘Free beer for all the wharfies when the red revolution comes’ When Chris Corrigan’s 1998 stevedore revolution changed the…
Engineering Club Sensible
If there’s one thing we can all agree on, it is that the times are changing. When news of the…
Have a cigar
Whatever else may be said of the late Fidel Castro, he has one distinction no-one can take from him or…
The Dictator delusion
It was a warm tropical night in 1995 and Fidel Castro was playing the waiting game with Gareth Evans. The…
Playing the identity card
‘And the union people crawled away…’- Billy Joel, Allentown ‘Funny that Billy just endorsed Hillary. He must have forgotten…
Have a cigar
Whatever else may be said of the late Fidel Castro, he has one distinction no-one can take from him or…
Engineering Club Sensible
If there’s one thing we can all agree on, it is that the times are changing. When news of the…
Our grandads didn’t die for this
It is, perhaps, a poor reflection of our times when a historian feels compelled to remind others that the Nazis…
Our grandads didn’t die for this
It is, perhaps, a poor reflection of our times when a historian feels compelled to remind others that the Nazis…
Have a cigar
Whatever else may be said of the late Fidel Castro, he has one distinction no-one can take from him or…
