Australian Notes
Australian notes
Time for a new centre-right party? Don’t you find it odd that many of the people now clamouring for some…
Australian notes
Smiling Prince of Victoria Even in these authoritarian times, life can still be unpredictable. I was in Melbourne recently and,…
Australian notes
Bullocks As you drive into our nation’s beef capital you are greeted by a statue of a bull emblazoned with…
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Rudd fancies himself as Metternich The latest edition of Foreign Affairs, the American foreign policy journal, contains yet another article…
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Covid-19 and anti-Semitism In the face of rising anti-Semitism in Australia and the disruptive economic and social impact of Covid-19,…
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The ten per cent One of the chief complaints of the – now almost forgotten – Occupy Wall Street movement…
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18C on steroids The idea that a sitting Tasmanian senator can be dragged before the state Anti-Discrimination Commissioner for her…
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Mike Carlton does not deserve his gong Welcome to modern Australia, where encouraging the strangulation of women, calling them crazy,…
Our threatened eco-system
Our threatened eco-system A fragile, irreplaceable eco-system is threatened and not a single environmentalist has raised their voice in protest.…
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Takin’ it to the streets Although public protests have exploded in the last few months in some Western countries, there…
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Vision of justice ‘Justice is the end [goal] of government. It is the end of civil society,’ argued James Madison,…
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Yes, black lives do matter. But let’s have some honesty… The greatest failing of the Black Lives Matter movement in…
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Time to cancel cancel culture If I were ever asked, and I won’t be, I would urge the government to…
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Is it racism or the obsession with racism that is costing indigenous lives? Where’s the outrage regarding the high death…
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Chinese aggression and the New Cold War Over recent weeks commentators both in Australia and abroad have drawn attention to…
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It’s almost always a binary political world Have you ever wondered what Malcolm Turnbull’s version of the Golden Rule might…
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Imagine, no Magna Carta All over the world, millions of people are being subjected by their respective governments to an…
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Everybody loves borders now What do Justin Trudeau, Jacinda Ardern, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the crazier fringe of the Greens party (here…
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Let’s be a lot more sceptical towards China
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Enemies of free speech hide behind a bill of rights An intriguing feature of the debate about freedom of the…
We could be a superpower, too
Back in 2008, Kevin Rudd announced a new ‘Green Car Plan’ which in his words would ‘make the automotive industry…
Fighting fires
The richest man in Rome at the time of Julius Caesar was Marcus Licinius Crassus. Crassus made his fortune through…
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Elites thwarting the great Aussie dream For too many Australians, the great Australian dream of home ownership becomes more elusive…
Vale Tim Fischer
Tim Fischer’s penultimate speech in the House of Representatives was in response to a motion condemning the September 11 terrorist…
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Superglued to the Greens The great satirical novelist Evelyn Waugh once catalogued a fictional, remote and newly-converted Christian sect who…
