Guest Notes
Cultural notes
My answer to China? The Anglosphere. ‘Enough buying from China! Why do we need their stuff? It’s s—t quality anyway.…
Political notes
We must resist the American Left’s dangerous race-based lies I have been following the rise of identity politics for 30…
Cultural notes
While the West slept President Kennedy wrote a thesis in his last year at university that was later published under…
Euro notes
How DFAT (yet again) let us down Foreign Minister Marise Payne’s robust initiative in leading the call for an independent…
Cold war notes
In a truly excellent article in the Australian, Stephen Loosley reminded us – in my case rather appropriately – of…
Dystopian notes
Albion is toast Australia: will you take me? You’ve always been high on my list of escape destinations when everything…
Dis-con notes
Get a wriggle on, ScoMo Previous Dis-Con Notes (25/04/20 and 16/05/20) proposed eleven policy reforms for Prime Minister Morrison’s consideration.…
US notes
Can Joe Biden prove more popular than Hillary? In the current climate of massive disruption in all countries, political predictions…
Dis-Con notes
Well done, Angus Six weeks ago I advised the prime minister to undertake a ministerial reshuffle. Three weeks ago I…
Euro notes
Two countries divided by a common pandemic In late 1970, British prime minister Ted Heath learnt that his Australian counterpart…
Euro notes
Europe’s bogus bogeyman The coronavirus pandemic is proving a tough time for the Left. The all-consuming focus on a real…
Movie buff notes
Green ain’t green Normally I waste many hours of my working day sitting in a big red chamber while something…
Dis-con notes
Some policy reforms, Mr Morrison Three weeks ago I advised Scott Morrison to dump seven Liberal and LNP ‘Duds’ from…
Corona notes
Heads Trump wins, tails CNN loses Remember back when that Imperial College in London modelling came out saying that this…
Jewish notes
Is opposition to Israel anti-Semitic? What is anti-Semitism, and who deserves the label anti-Semite? These are questions that arose from…
Dis-con notes
Time for a re-shuffle, Mr Morrison Since its re-election the Morrison government has been beset by one ‘crisis’, real or…
Pandemic notes
The contraction of globalisation The thought of globalisation as an inherent good of modern life is fracturing. That is not…
Wu flu notes
My Coronavirus hell Many of you will be wondering what it’s like to get the coronavirus – aka Wu Flu,…
Euro notes
Tories in the time of Coronavirus Who would have thought until a few weeks ago that Boris Johnson’s success over…
Redemption notes
Decline of Australia
Short notes
Confessions of a Coronavirus vulture The luckiest man in the world is a financier friend of mine who decided two…
Euro notes
Auf Wiedersehen, Willkommenspolitik What a difference five years makes. In the European summer of 2015, a huge wave of illegal…
Hands on the scales of Aboriginal affairs
Recently we saw the release of the latest Closing the Gap report for 2020. There were no real surprises, so…
Chinese whispers
Following a good month and a half of often nocturnal motorised flights from active bushfires both at Echo Point in…
London notes
Drinking English champagne A visit to London to watch the end of Britain’s 47-year membership of the European project reveals…
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