Australian Notes

Australian notes

3 August 2013 9:00 am

It was a stoic little gathering of Craig Thomson loyalists in the Celebrity Room of City Tatts in Sydney. Promoted…

Australian Notes

27 July 2013 9:00 am

More from Poor Peter’s Almanac: Kevin Rudd is disliked by all who know him but is popular on television. Tony…

Australian Notes

20 July 2013 9:00 am

Anyone who believes Kevin Rudd has changed will believe anything. So says the great cartoonist Bill Leak, unloading during the…

Australian Notes

13 July 2013 9:00 am

The crowded Thanksgiving Service at St James, Kings Street, Sydney, for Charles Copeman, the mining executive who died aged 83…

Australian notes

6 July 2013 9:00 am

There’s something irresistible about a philosopher who gives his recreations in Debrett’s as ‘wine, women and song’. Ken Minogue, who died last…