Australian Notes
Australian notes
Eleven random thoughts Let me start with a bow to those who thought it best to vote for Malcolm Turnbull…
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Labor’s water hypocrisy What water scandal? ‘I acted on the recommendations of my department which had conducted an independent, competitive…
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Golden transparency of surrogacy secrecy? How many times have you met a person and wondered if they could talk under…
Running on empty
If anything happened to disrupt our imports of oil and fuel, such as a blockade of shipping through the South…
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On academic freedom The dismissal of Tim Anderson from his academic post at the University of Sydney has triggered a…
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Let’s emulate Jordan Jordan Peterson’s much-hyped performance on Q&A was a model of reasonable discussion. As long as the ABC…
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For me, at least, this year’s Australia Day was preceded somewhat significantly two days earlier by a vast four page…
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How on earth can we ensure that 2019 is a more positive and constructive year than the last one? Australia…
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Students lacking the basics I am a law professor at the University of Queensland, a G8 university and one of…
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Good trouble I arrive in Australia to feverish talk of a rebellion. There has been a ‘teenage revolt’. A mass…
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In the hour and a half it took me to drive to Sydney on August 23, I listened to what…
Dear Paul
Three major articles by the Australian’s editor-at-large Paul Kelly, and Tony Abbott’s even more major Heritage Foundation speech in Washington,…
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Universities of the closed mind A series of leaked emails reveal the depths of prejudice and groupthink at Australia’s universities.…
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Western Civ That the Australian National University has rejected funding to establish a Ramsay Centre for Western Civilisation proves how…
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On Republicanism The spectacle of so many grisly celebrities clustered together at the royal wedding reminded me why I was…
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Want to know how low the commitment to free speech has sunk these days? About a week ago the White…
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Bank robbery I am a reformed, recidivist bank robber. I did it the old-fashioned way; by storming into a bank…
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Sorry seems to be the easiest word I am sorry to have to say this, but I think we all…
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On tour with Jordan I got the phone call back in January. The man on the other end of the…
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The feminist revolution is already over. Men lost. International Women’s Day is a day when women of the chattering classes…
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Turnbull’s 18C on steroids Rahm Emmanuel, one-time Chief of Staff in the Obama Administration, once said: ‘You never let a…
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18C for Tarneen? Last Friday marked the 230th anniversary of a penal colony being founded on the shores of Sydney…
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Human Rights Commission hoisted with its own petard In the recent Australian Marriage Law Survey, Australians were asked the following…
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Memo to Republicans: Australia is not a colony The fundamental difference between Australia as a ‘colony’ and every other colony…
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Watching the feral soap-dodgers Any other celebrity would be dozing in the VIP lounge, but I write from Sydney…
