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A rousing anthem strains the speakers as North Korea’s national carrier lands its nervous passengers at Pyongyang International [sic] Airport.…
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The Quadrant dinner in Sydney was held in ‘a semi-secure, undisclosed location.’ Or so Roger Kimball, tongue-in-cheek, blogged back to…
Australian Notes
The Quadrant dinner in Sydney was held in ‘a semi-secure, undisclosed location.’ Or so Roger Kimball, tongue-in-cheek, blogged back to…
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You lookin’ for Joe?’ asked the road-worker, probably one of Joe’s constituents, as I parked and cast around for the…
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You lookin’ for Joe?’ asked the road-worker, probably one of Joe’s constituents, as I parked and cast around for the…
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At first Moscow dubbed ‘unacceptable’ Tony Abbott’s brief speeches in Parliament and elsewhere on the downing of the Malaysian airliner…
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At first Moscow dubbed ‘unacceptable’ Tony Abbott’s brief speeches in Parliament and elsewhere on the downing of the Malaysian airliner…
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Forget about a double dissolution. Tony Abbott knows it would not only help Clive Palmer. It would help Billy Shorten…
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Forget about a double dissolution. Tony Abbott knows it would not only help Clive Palmer. It would help Billy Shorten…
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‘We have the full range of politics here tonight — from the hard Left to the soft Left.’ The ABC’s…
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‘We have the full range of politics here tonight — from the hard Left to the soft Left.’ The ABC’s…
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When bombed in England bluff Bob Menzies Gave way to paranoiac frenzies; And other news like this to gladden The…
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When bombed in England bluff Bob Menzies Gave way to paranoiac frenzies; And other news like this to gladden The…
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The back page of the New York Times put it well. It was an empty broadsheet page except for the…
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The back page of the New York Times put it well. It was an empty broadsheet page except for the…
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So despite being ‘well-meaning’ I am, according to Peter Manning in last week’s Sun-Herald, some sort of ‘racist’. This became…
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So despite being ‘well-meaning’ I am, according to Peter Manning in last week’s Sun-Herald, some sort of ‘racist’. This became…
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Q&A is the ABC’s TV show on which on one famous occasion an anti-Iraq war activist threw his shoes at…
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Q&A is the ABC’s TV show on which on one famous occasion an anti-Iraq war activist threw his shoes at…
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What can anyone do to change the world? Can any of us, for example, strike a blow that matters against…
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What can anyone do to change the world? Can any of us, for example, strike a blow that matters against…
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When told of the death of the philosopher David Armstrong, the Prime Minister Tony Abbott had this to say: ‘David…
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When told of the death of the philosopher David Armstrong, the Prime Minister Tony Abbott had this to say: ‘David…
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I first met David Armstrong early in 1947 when, recently discharged from the Navy, he arrived at Sydney University and…
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I first met David Armstrong early in 1947 when, recently discharged from the Navy, he arrived at Sydney University and…
