Australian Notes
Australian notes
The unbearable lightness of lying Ever since French President Emmanuel Macron told a credulous Australian media that he doesn’t think,…
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Zut alors! The French have not forgiven the English for Brexit. As Clément Beaune, France’s Minister for European Affairs, said…
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The great dumbing down While cleaning out some boxes the other day I came across one of my old school…
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Glasgow: where frail nations go to die I know a thing or two about terminal illness, and it seems to…
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What would happen after a loss? Here’s an important question to ponder. What direction would the federal Liberal party take…
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The human rights industry exposed If there is one thing this Covid pandemic has shown us it is the hollow…
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How the thoughts of Xi led to the subs deal An independent inquiry into the persecution of the Uighurs in…
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The new greek chorus: where are the feminists? As a woman of a certain age, it saddens me greatly to…
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Special Drawing Rights: one step closer to world government Even among this journal’s well-informed readers, how many have heard of,…
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Whitlam’s revenge It is often said that the Whitlam government was in office but not in power. Can the same…
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A Guide to Understanding this Pandemic We are all living through the worst inroads on our freedoms and civil liberties…
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Submarines no-brainer Our submarine acquisition program has spent several billion dollars and not seen a metre of steel cut yet.…
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Big government bounces back Despite its spending spree in the Budget, the federal government would do well to remember that…
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Australia’s Representatives: a new party to reclaim democracy We know that we live in a genuine democracy when, during a…
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Time for a new centre-right party? Don’t you find it odd that many of the people now clamouring for some…
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Smiling Prince of Victoria Even in these authoritarian times, life can still be unpredictable. I was in Melbourne recently and,…
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Bullocks As you drive into our nation’s beef capital you are greeted by a statue of a bull emblazoned with…
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Rudd fancies himself as Metternich The latest edition of Foreign Affairs, the American foreign policy journal, contains yet another article…
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Covid-19 and anti-Semitism In the face of rising anti-Semitism in Australia and the disruptive economic and social impact of Covid-19,…
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The ten per cent One of the chief complaints of the – now almost forgotten – Occupy Wall Street movement…
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18C on steroids The idea that a sitting Tasmanian senator can be dragged before the state Anti-Discrimination Commissioner for her…
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Mike Carlton does not deserve his gong Welcome to modern Australia, where encouraging the strangulation of women, calling them crazy,…
Our threatened eco-system
Our threatened eco-system A fragile, irreplaceable eco-system is threatened and not a single environmentalist has raised their voice in protest.…
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Takin’ it to the streets Although public protests have exploded in the last few months in some Western countries, there…
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Vision of justice ‘Justice is the end [goal] of government. It is the end of civil society,’ argued James Madison,…
