Guest Notes
Anzac notes
Time for Rankin and Taylor to be rewarded After 78 years of injustice, finally last December 18-year- old naval sailor…
Medical notes
‘The Science’ versus science Science first became unwell when we had to suddenly accept, without any possibility of debate, the…
Euro notes
Europe’s political cross-dressers A good Tony Abbott story is that early during his time as an MP, he did a…
Euro notes
Boris & the nightmare of Lady MacStalin After Alex Salmond, Scotland’s former first minister, claimed his successor Nicola Sturgeon had…
Ancestral notes
Being David Cohen The apparent news that Joe Biden tapped me to help lead one of his new administration’s most…
Euro notes
Ursula Fond o’ Lyin’ Odd policy choices continue to bedevil Boris Johnson’s government. Almost a year after Australia started putting…
Covid notes
Beyond the quarantine fiasco While the mismanagement of the hotel quarantine in Melbourne has been in the news, a more…
US notes
Every idea is an incitement When the outgoing 45th President of the United States vouchsafed to his audience at The…
Euro notes
Brexit Boost for Boris Having won a thumping majority a year ago, Boris Johnson keeps squandering the early, widespread good…
Euro notes
Europe’s woke Iron Curtain Who could have predicted that the gulf between Europe’s west and east would still be there…
Christmas notes
Put some coal in our stockings Santa will be busy this year because 2020 marks the final year of the…
Cultural notes
Warts and All Memorial As its name makes clear, the Australian War Memorial exists to memorialise the service and sacrifice…
Media Notes
Where are all the journalists? Please could someone just clarify a point of law for me: is theft no longer…
Election notes
They want him to 'turn the other cheek' so that they can have a free ride to power regardless of what laws they have broken and what cheating they've stooped to
Euro wuflu notes
Lonely Goatherd immunity While Australia has spent much of 2020 establishing Iron Curtain border regimes, Europe’s bewildering and ever-changing internal…
Euro notes
Half-hearted Tory Spare a thought for the UK’s embattled lamb producers. How long will it be, they are wondering, until…
Musical notes
Trumps like us, baby we were born to run Mr Bruce Springsteen has, depending on how one views these things,…
Covid notes
India and the missed opportunity of HCQ The coronavirus pandemic has had rapidly shifting and often contested storylines on infectiousness,…
Covid notes
The Pied Piper of Pandemic Porn ‘Fool me once,’ say Americans, ‘shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.’…
Farewell notes
Today on a day of unsurpassable spring glory my wife and I visited the onetime home of her maternal great-grandparents,…
China notes
Ducking Peking ASoviet-era joke had someone visiting the part of the commu- nist bureaucracy which issued permission to move your…
Covid notes
I’m at risk, but I don’t want lockdowns It’s hard to credit in a democracy like Australia, but five and…
Trade notes
Boris picks a real Tory In his two years as prime minister, Tony Abbott achieved more to help Australia’s exporters…
Woke notes
Chinese aggression and the New Cold War The elderly woman in the ground floor flat was the janitor of the…
Lockdown notes
A good war Who could ever have imagined that the greatest act of rebellion in the second decade of the…
