Australian Notes

Australian Notes

16 November 2013 9:00 am

Mr Keating cannot help himself. The solemnity and splendour of the Remembrance Day service in a drizzling Canberra was a…

Australian Notes

14 November 2013 3:00 pm

Mr Keating cannot help himself. The solemnity and splendour of the Remembrance Day service in a drizzling Canberra was a…

Australian Notes

9 November 2013 9:00 am

In his call to arms at the black-tie dinner in Sydney Town Hall celebrating the Lowy Institute’s tenth anniversary, Rupert…

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7 November 2013 3:00 pm

In his call to arms at the black-tie dinner in Sydney Town Hall celebrating the Lowy Institute’s tenth anniversary, Rupert…

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2 November 2013 9:00 am

Good to see the names of another 11 writers added to the Circular Quay Writers’ Walk in Sydney. But can…

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31 October 2013 3:00 pm

Good to see the names of another 11 writers added to the Circular Quay Writers’ Walk in Sydney. But can…

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26 October 2013 9:00 am

The offence of the Greens, especially Adam Bandt, in blaming the bushfires on Tony Abbott is not that they politicised…

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24 October 2013 2:00 pm

The offence of the Greens, especially Adam Bandt, in blaming the bushfires on Tony Abbott is not that they politicised…

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19 October 2013 9:00 am

The cheers of 180 celebrants (at $290 a head) echoed across the moonlit harbour from Pinchgut Island to the Opera…

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17 October 2013 2:00 pm

The cheers of 180 celebrants (at $290 a head) echoed across the moonlit harbour from Pinchgut Island to the Opera…

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12 October 2013 9:00 am

Neither ‘Albo’ Albanese nor Billy Shorten will be the next Labor prime minister, according to John Howard. This is partly…

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10 October 2013 2:00 pm

Neither ‘Albo’ Albanese nor Billy Shorten will be the next Labor prime minister, according to John Howard. This is partly…

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5 October 2013 9:00 am

At Julia Gillard’s triumphal rallies, her ecstatic audiences applauded the idea that her valour in standing up to misogyny will…

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3 October 2013 1:00 pm

At Julia Gillard’s triumphal rallies, her ecstatic audiences applauded the idea that her valour in standing up to misogyny will…

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28 September 2013 9:00 am

David Marr, the celebrated journalist, has done it again. First he psychoanalysed the rabid Kevin Rudd in his essay Power…

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26 September 2013 1:00 pm

David Marr, the celebrated journalist, has done it again. First he psychoanalysed the rabid Kevin Rudd in his essay Power…

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21 September 2013 9:00 am

Will its allies around the world ever recover that confidence in the United States, which they lost with President Obama’s…

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19 September 2013 1:00 pm

Will its allies around the world ever recover that confidence in the United States, which they lost with President Obama’s…

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14 September 2013 9:00 am

Mr Putin suggests that Syria submit its chemical weapons to international control. Syria’s foreign minister thinks this is a good…

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12 September 2013 1:00 pm

Mr Putin suggests that Syria submit its chemical weapons to international control. Syria’s foreign minister thinks this is a good…

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7 September 2013 9:00 am

They can’t help themselves. Despite the ancient warnings against counting chickens and the dreadful memory of the unlosable, but lost,…

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31 August 2013 9:00 am

The Labor party has no hope of winning the election unless something extraordinary happens in the next few days. Is…

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24 August 2013 9:00 am

It was a great night in the Paddo RSL. It was an open-to-all public meeting to hear and question candidates…

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17 August 2013 9:00 am

Tony Abbott won the first debate marginally on both style and issues. Neither leader was faintly inspirational let alone charismatic.…

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10 August 2013 9:00 am

While Kevin Rudd was making his way to Yarralumla last Sunday, Tony Abbott was in Sydney’s Chinatown with Julie Bishop…