Australian Notes

CO2 notes

8 November 2014 9:00 am

This year the world will enjoy its greatest grain crop on record. Let me say that again. This year the…

CO2 notes

6 November 2014 3:00 pm

This year the world will enjoy its greatest grain crop on record. Let me say that again. This year the…

South African notes

1 November 2014 9:00 am

“Cape Town is a lot like Sydney,” an ex-pat yarpie had assured me. But as I’m driven through the township…

Australian notes

25 October 2014 9:00 am

Among Gough Whitlam’s greatest moments were his acceptance both of his Dismissal in November 1975 and of his overwhelming rejection…

Australian notes

23 October 2014 2:00 pm

Among Gough Whitlam’s greatest moments were his acceptance both of his Dismissal in November 1975 and of his overwhelming rejection…

Libertarian notes

18 October 2014 9:00 am

Since arriving in the Senate on July 1, there are two things I have learned. First, lots of people want…

Libertarian notes

16 October 2014 2:00 pm

Since arriving in the Senate on July 1, there are two things I have learned. First, lots of people want…

Australian notes

11 October 2014 9:00 am

What do we leave behind us when we die, asked the Prime Minister? Our deeds are quickly forgotten. Our goods…

Australian notes

9 October 2014 2:00 pm

What do we leave behind us when we die, asked the Prime Minister? Our deeds are quickly forgotten. Our goods…

Australian notes

13 September 2014 9:00 am

Tony Abbott was right. As I hurried along Phillip Street in Sydney the other Sunday afternoon to the service in…

Australian notes

11 September 2014 1:00 pm

Tony Abbott was right. As I hurried along Phillip Street in Sydney the other Sunday afternoon to the service in…

North Korean notes

23 August 2014 9:00 am

A rousing anthem strains the speakers as North Korea’s national carrier lands its nervous passengers at Pyongyang International [sic] Airport.…

North Korean notes

21 August 2014 1:00 pm

A rousing anthem strains the speakers as North Korea’s national carrier lands its nervous passengers at Pyongyang International [sic] Airport.…

Australian Notes

16 August 2014 9:00 am

The Quadrant dinner in Sydney was held in ‘a semi-secure, undisclosed location.’ Or so Roger Kimball, tongue-in-cheek, blogged back to…

Australian Notes

14 August 2014 1:00 pm

The Quadrant dinner in Sydney was held in ‘a semi-secure, undisclosed location.’ Or so Roger Kimball, tongue-in-cheek, blogged back to…

Australian notes

2 August 2014 9:00 am

You lookin’ for Joe?’ asked the road-worker, probably one of Joe’s constituents, as I parked and cast around for the…

Australian notes

31 July 2014 1:00 pm

You lookin’ for Joe?’ asked the road-worker, probably one of Joe’s constituents, as I parked and cast around for the…

Australian Notes

26 July 2014 9:00 am

At first Moscow dubbed ‘unacceptable’ Tony Abbott’s brief speeches in Parliament and elsewhere on the downing of the Malaysian airliner…

Australian Notes

24 July 2014 1:00 pm

At first Moscow dubbed ‘unacceptable’ Tony Abbott’s brief speeches in Parliament and elsewhere on the downing of the Malaysian airliner…

Australian Notes

19 July 2014 9:00 am

Forget about a double dissolution. Tony Abbott knows it would not only help Clive Palmer. It would help Billy Shorten…

Australian Notes

17 July 2014 1:00 pm

Forget about a double dissolution. Tony Abbott knows it would not only help Clive Palmer. It would help Billy Shorten…

Australian notes

12 July 2014 9:00 am

‘We have the full range of politics here tonight — from the hard Left to the soft Left.’ The ABC’s…

Australian notes

10 July 2014 1:00 pm

‘We have the full range of politics here tonight — from the hard Left to the soft Left.’ The ABC’s…

Australian Notes

5 July 2014 9:00 am

When bombed in England bluff Bob Menzies Gave way to paranoiac frenzies; And other news like this to gladden The…

Australian Notes

3 July 2014 1:00 pm

When bombed in England bluff Bob Menzies Gave way to paranoiac frenzies; And other news like this to gladden The…