Australian Notes
Australian notes
Compare and contrast So it’s coming up to a year since one Donald Trump was inaugurated as the 45th president…
Australian notes
The Textorising of the right Let me make a confession, one that should you utter it out loud would mark…
Australian notes
The Bennelong bedwetter Some say that this innovative and agile Team Turnbull government continues to go from strength to strength.…
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John Howard and the black hand It is not particularly far-fetched to claim that the Liberal Party is in big…
Australian Notes
Four pillars of the Museum Bob, my husband of more than half a century, was born in Tsing Tao,…
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Black-on-black hate The problem of violence in Aboriginal communities is well known to anyone with an interest in Aboriginal affairs.…
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Would Bill Shorten’s plan for government take Australia in the direction of East Germany, as Finance Senator Mathias Cormann has…
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Shorten must be stopped For once, Malcolm Turnbull’s current travails are not all his own fault. The Prime Minister could…
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On Noel and Richo Last week in the Australian Noel Pearson wrote a piece responding to Graham Richardson’s earlier claim…
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On my first visit to Darwin twenty odd years ago to cover the annual Aboriginal art awards a number of…
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Inequality is the human condition, Bill Whaddaya mean by ‘tackling inequality’, Bill? Don’t you know that inequality is built…
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Sensible centre is for suckers I am going to point to the US, the UK and modern mainstream protestant…
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On expertise The Wealth of Nations, by the Scottish Enlightenment thinker Adam Smith, is a great book. When you read…
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Malleable expectations Gary Johns is a fellow Speccie contributor. He’s also a friend. In fact, next month my wife and…
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LINO takeover Did that curious phone call really mean I was to be dragged before some Liberal inquisition to suffer…
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The new aristocrats Listen these days to some of the world’s elite politicians, commentators and officials pontificate and you’d think…
Australian Notes
Let’s keep Triggs for the fun of it I wouldn’t trust Malcolm Turnbull or George Brandis to pick what type…
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The ABC of ESPN I confess to being something of a sports addict. I like playing and watching competitive sports,…
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Diversity’s hypocrites Let’s say that you’re a ‘diversity’ freak. What you want in life is to take some group X,…
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Well, that was another depressingly terrible week for free speech in this country as political correctness and identity politics stayed…
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The Human Rights Commission must go Described by its leading victim, Bill Leak, as a ‘rogue totalitarian unit’, the Human…
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Bill Leak used to say that Picasso changed his life. He was, he said, ‘a troubled youth’ of 16 years…
Election notes
Malcolm, take note… As the dust settles on the Western Australian election result, and Labor’s Mark McGowan sweeping to office…
Australian notes
When I was offered a full-time job here in 1994, my understanding of this country was limited to say the…
Australian notes
When I was offered a full-time job here in 1994, my understanding of this country was limited to say the…
