Latham’s Law
Latham’s law
It’s been the Year of Living in Lockdown. First the wretched bushfires smoked us out so badly we had to…
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If only all Australians had the same intellectual luxury available to them as the Victorian Labor Premier, Dan Andrews. Earlier…
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In political history, 2019 will be remembered as the year Labor lost the unlosable election due to wrong-headed tax policies.…
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Somewhere, most likely in a bunker buried beneath the ABC, there’s a Left-wing laboratory working overtime at inventing new slurs…
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Sharman Stone is not exactly a household name, not even in her own house. In two decades as a federal…
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I’ve found a solution to the world’s problems. We need to get David Duke to say the following words: ‘Political…
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One of the weaknesses in the Australian education system is a lack of understanding of civics. Teaching children the basics…
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I love a rollicking book of insults as much as the next person. In typical Australian style they lean towards…
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There’s a surprisingly simple way of ending the malaise in Australian politics. Turn off the fast forward button. Everything is…
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It’s the iron law of government administration. After a new bureaucracy is established, initially with limited powers and responsibilities, it…
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‘So where the bloody hell are you?’ Lara Bingle beseeched overseas travellers in Scott Morrison’s successful 2006 television ad. Morrison…
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Julia Gillard called it hyper-bowl. Last week Niki Savva turned it into an art form when she described the end…
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When Matt Damon starred in the movie Downsizing earlier this year, he could not have known he was providing a…
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Who would have thought? It turns out Gough Whitlam and Malcolm Fraser were racists. Poor old Gough spent decades in…
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Just when the health system in inner-Melbourne and Sydney was coming to terms with the psychotic conditions caused by Donald…
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It was the best news Fairfax ever published: the story of its demise. Yet to listen to the wailing Fairfax…
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Before his death in July 1826, Thomas Jefferson wrote the epitaph for his own gravestone and insisted it carry ‘not…
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Have new communication technologies suddenly become dangerous? I always thought texting on whiz-bang iPhones was a good thing.If my daughter’s…
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Every parent knows the problem. An errant child who is always telling lies, whether it’s ‘I didn’t take them’, ‘I…
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The education system used to be so straightforward. But now, with the classics of Western civilisation being chucked into the…
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At last, there’s a break in the weather. As identity politics has swept across Australia like a crackling thunderstorm, drenching…
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What was Paul Ramsay thinking? In dedicating part of his estate’s $3 billion endowment to course work at an Australian…
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In the Middle Ages, society had a long list of taboo terms, usually associated with witchcraft. In today’s politics, the…
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One of the strange reactions to the 17th Century Enlightenment was the concept of the Noble Savage. In the backlash…
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For the large amounts of national security spending and ‘expert advice’ available to our governments, they are still struggling with…
