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22 August 2015 9:00 am

With the stuff and nonsense being thrown around about Dyson Heydon and the Royal Commission into union corruption, it is…

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15 August 2015 9:00 am

Over the last year or so I have been trying to catch up on two aspects of modern culture that…

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25 July 2015 9:00 am

It looks like we may have an early election. So that my readers will be well-informed citizens ready to take…

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11 July 2015 9:00 am

There seems to have been an awful lot of evolving going on in Canberra lately. This has been particularly evident…

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27 June 2015 9:00 am

Frankly, I cannot see anything wrong in paying people smugglers to go home; had I been in the government’s position…

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30 May 2015 9:00 am

People seem to think I do not like the ABC. I can understand why some people hold this view. It…

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23 May 2015 9:00 am

I suppose no-one will believe me when I say that I predicted the result of the UK election. But I…

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9 May 2015 9:00 am

If I thought there was free speech in Australia since the Andrew Bolt case, I would tell you what I…

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25 April 2015 9:00 am

I see that another parliamentary committee has been grappling with the dispute between the government and Gillian Triggs, and the…

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7 March 2015 9:00 am

It is profoundly disturbing that the Liberal Party seems to have taken leave of its senses again and is about…

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13 December 2014 9:00 am

I had hoped to bring you a cheery Christmas tale, but the political goings on in Melbourne and Canberra mean…

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4 October 2014 9:00 am

I regret to say that this will be my last column, at least in this regular form. I am afraid…

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20 September 2014 9:00 am

Troy Bramston (‘Gorton vs McMahon: the secret memo’ 30 August) joins a long line of journalists who keep repeating the…

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6 September 2014 9:00 am

There have certainly been some changes in how governments go about their business. In the past, when trying to work…

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23 August 2014 9:00 am

We came from Scotland when my father was nine and his family ditched the old world a year after the…

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2 August 2014 9:00 am

The success of Tony Abbott and Julie Bishop in handling the aftermath of the ghastly events in Ukraine has been…

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26 July 2014 9:00 am

Being an insomniac, I woke about 4 a.m. last Friday, turned on the BBC and there was the news already,…

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19 July 2014 9:00 am

I wonder if you have noticed that the public response here and overseas to the current Middle Eastern crisis has…

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12 July 2014 9:00 am

I feel as if I am writing the Diary this week, as I recount the ups and downs of my…

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5 July 2014 9:00 am

I hope the proposals from the one- man committee of inquiry to make the ABC and SBS ‘more commercial’ are…

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28 June 2014 9:00 am

A column like this cannot ignore the terrible events in the Middle East as Iraq falls apart from bloody-mindedness, Islamic…

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21 June 2014 8:00 am

I originally thought the Abbott/Hockey budget was pretty sensible and logical in terms of the financial crisis facing the country;…

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14 June 2014 9:00 am

Those of you who have read this column recently know that what has been agitating me is the expansion of…

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7 June 2014 9:00 am

I agree with Lucy Turnbull about Malcolm’s dinner with Clive Palmer. Her father Tom Hughes used to be in politics…

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31 May 2014 9:00 am

I do not like talking about personalities in politics. What is at stake is too important to be channelled through…