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Is Tony Abbott a dry?
At six minutes past eight on the evening of Monday 3 March, the camera panned unexpectedly off the face of…
Politics is not a blood sport
Mocking, abusing or vilifying Labor leaders is morally repugnant. Mocking, abusing or vilifying Liberal leaders is cool. Such is the…
Breaking windows
Smash! Don’t say we didn’t warn you. As one energy-reliant manufacturer after another shuts up shop; as our energy prices…
Creative destruction
In Labor’s telling, the decision by Japanese Toyota executives to pull the plug on their Australian operation is Tony Abbott’s…
The trouble with Aunty
The image of the benign, slightly fuddy-duddy old eccentric has been wrong for some time. But in recent weeks, the…
Rogues gallery
There seem to be an awful lot of rogues out there. When it became clear that corruption allegations against former…
Broken society
The deaths of NSW teenagers Thomas Kelly and Daniel Christie were beyond tragic. The senseless, random nature of the violence…
Very, very effective
The border protection debate is roaring again, and we’re happy to join the fun. One place to start is to…
Climate change jokers
They call it the silly season, when not much is happening in politics, so far-fetched yarns and preposterous anecdotes get…
Abbott’s Christmas renewal
It’s been only three months since Tony Abbott’s decisive victory on 7 September, and already the critics are baying for…
Say it ain’t so, Joe
Under which particular pillow does Joe Hockey hope to find a lazy trillion dollars lurking? That’s the estimated investment Australian…
Stop attacking Aunty
This magazine rarely misses an opportunity to criticise the ABC. So readers may be surprised to find us defending Aunty…
A delicate diplomatic dance
‘Few international problems in the postwar period have proved as difficult for Australia as the development of a friendly and…
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…
Slaying the beast
They stabbed it with their steely knives, but they just can’t kill the beast,’ sang the Eagles in ‘Hotel California’.…
Labor’s penance
And so the sins of the forefathers shall be visited upon the sons, or so it must feel like to…
Grim reading
Left-wing dogma is destroying the literary skills of an entire generation. Such is the depressing conclusion of a recent report…
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…
Triumph in Jakarta
Walking into the gilt opulence of the ‘Credentials Room’ of the Istana Merdeka palace in Jakarta, our new Prime Minister…
A changing climate
When we say the climate is changing, we do not mean that man-made global warming is destroying planet Earth. We…
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…
A foreign policy realist
‘The United States does not want either side to win this war. Victory for either side would mean dreadful massacres…
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Some take ‘selfies’ of their shaving cuts. Others set up fatuous Facebook pages pleading to be ‘liked’. Many more propel…
