Australian Notes

Australian notes

21 October 2023 9:00 am

Did you know that the Australian government in bygone days issued licences to citizens to hunt Aboriginals? No, I didn’t…

Australian notes

30 September 2023 9:00 am

The Managerial Class Recently I spoke at the Sydney Institute on the subject of George Orwell’s justly famous essay ‘Politics…

New HRC madness

9 September 2023 9:00 am

In Canberra a parliamentary committee is considering whether to recommend a huge transfer of power from the elected executive government…

Australian notes

10 June 2023 9:00 am

An alliance of philanthropic foundations has declared their support for the Voice: a combined $17-million pledge from the philanthropic sector…

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29 April 2023 9:00 am

Major problems with the Voice referendum are plain to see: even some of its prominent supporters question its chances of…

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18 March 2023 9:00 am

The announcement of the route we will take to acquire nuclear submarines is good only in parts. Down the road…

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4 March 2023 9:00 am

When the Australian editorialises (24/02/23) that, ‘No one who has followed [its] reporting over decades could remain untouched by the…

Australian notes

18 February 2023 9:00 am

ABC grope-think True to its mission to enlighten and entertain, the ABC has set out to inform us about the…

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10 December 2022 9:00 am

‘Euthanasia should be rejected on one unifying principle: the people who are most at risk are the most vulnerable, and…

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26 November 2022 9:00 am

In 2020, after 78 years of injustice, an 18-year-old in the Royal Australian Navy, Teddy Sheean, received a Victoria Cross…

Australian notes

19 November 2022 9:00 am

Having flown to the United Nations Climate Change Conference (Cop 27) in Egypt, Climate Change Minister Chris Bowen has been…

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22 October 2022 9:00 am

The current consideration by the Australian Human Rights Commission of a complaint by Green Senator Mehreen Faruqi against fellow Senator…

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15 October 2022 9:00 am

Poisoning people to save the planet The blades from environmentally friendly subsidised bird- and bat-chomping inefficient wind turbines have a…

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1 October 2022 9:00 am

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has thrown his support behind truth-telling as a softener for the emotional campaign for the Voice…

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10 September 2022 9:00 am

For Australians of the second world war generation, the name Guadalcanal engenders immediate thoughts and emotions about some of the…

Australian notes

26 August 2022 11:00 pm

The defection of a number of Australian Anglicans from their Church might not seem of more than local importance but…

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25 June 2022 9:00 am

The past two years have seen the trust many Australians’ have in their institutions brought to an all-time low through…

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21 May 2022 9:00 am

On this page last election eve I wrote, ‘Mums and dads across the country look set to elect a Labor…

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23 April 2022 9:00 am

As I was driving home on Saturday after a busy day, I realised that everything I had done that day,…

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16 April 2022 9:00 am

Sorry to say this – but apologies by political figures seem to have become completely meaningless. In a visit to…

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26 March 2022 9:00 am

Snot catches some of the 50 million particles inhaled with every breath. These particles are one hundredth the size of…

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26 February 2022 9:00 am

Why on earth are we stopping people who want to work from working? I used to work at a community…

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19 February 2022 9:00 am

The liberty that dare not speak its name Lord Alfred Douglas, young lover of the great Oscar Wilde, wrote a…

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5 February 2022 9:00 am

Selling the dying Great Barrier Reef With the recent A$1billion announced to save the ‘dying’ Great Barrier Reef, I wonder…

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18 December 2021 9:00 am

A great reset of one’s own When the last long New South Wales lockdown was imposed, I was probably exhausted.…