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If I thought there was free speech in Australia since the Andrew Bolt case, I would tell you what I…
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I see that another parliamentary committee has been grappling with the dispute between the government and Gillian Triggs, and the…
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It is profoundly disturbing that the Liberal Party seems to have taken leave of its senses again and is about…
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I had hoped to bring you a cheery Christmas tale, but the political goings on in Melbourne and Canberra mean…
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I regret to say that this will be my last column, at least in this regular form. I am afraid…
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Troy Bramston (‘Gorton vs McMahon: the secret memo’ 30 August) joins a long line of journalists who keep repeating the…
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There have certainly been some changes in how governments go about their business. In the past, when trying to work…
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We came from Scotland when my father was nine and his family ditched the old world a year after the…
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The success of Tony Abbott and Julie Bishop in handling the aftermath of the ghastly events in Ukraine has been…
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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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I wonder if you have noticed that the public response here and overseas to the current Middle Eastern crisis has…
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I feel as if I am writing the Diary this week, as I recount the ups and downs of my…
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I hope the proposals from the one- man committee of inquiry to make the ABC and SBS ‘more commercial’ are…
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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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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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Those of you who have read this column recently know that what has been agitating me is the expansion of…
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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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I do not like talking about personalities in politics. What is at stake is too important to be channelled through…
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It is a minority opinion, but to me there seems to be a remarkable lack of passion and enthusiasm in…
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It looks as if at long last we have a government that is prepared to make some hard and unpopular,…
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I devoted most of last weekend to attending the conference of the Institute of Arbitrators and Mediators Australia in Canberra.…
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Our criticism of the ABC loses its credibility if we do not praise it on those occasions when praise is…
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There are now another 156 reasons for keeping our constitutional monarchy, for that is the number of leading barristers who…
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Monday nights are back to normal and I can watch the new season of Game of Thrones, the brilliant dungeons…
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I was thrilled to see the implacable enthusiasm of Afghani voters as they lined up in their thousands for hours…
