Australian Notes
Australian notes
I dropped in the other day to the Sydney Writers’ Festival to hear Stan Grant deliver his autobiographical and sometimes…
Australian notes
I dropped in the other day to the Sydney Writers’ Festival to hear Stan Grant deliver his autobiographical and sometimes…
Australian notes
Irony of ironies: Abbott to save Turnbull? Putting Malcolm Turnbull in the Lodge has not worked out as the conspirators…
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Same sex marriage? just give me Democracy There are few conceivable contexts whereby one could say ‘I believe in democracy’…
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The New Atheists – clever, uncompromising, polite – seized the initiative only a few years ago, at least in publishing.…
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The New Atheists – clever, uncompromising, polite – seized the initiative only a few years ago, at least in publishing.…
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In an occasional self-deprecatory moment the late Sir John Kerr liked to tell the story of his visit to London…
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In an occasional self-deprecatory moment the late Sir John Kerr liked to tell the story of his visit to London…
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The Prime Minister’s Literary Awards in Sydney the other day was an entirely different bouilloire de poissons from the presentation…
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The Prime Minister’s Literary Awards in Sydney the other day was an entirely different bouilloire de poissons from the presentation…
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I have a modest proposal to help combat the appeal to ordinary or ‘moderate’ Muslims, especially the young, of what…
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I have a modest proposal to help combat the appeal to ordinary or ‘moderate’ Muslims, especially the young, of what…
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If you look up the website of the late Australian philosopher David Stove, you will find the following mysterious announcement:…
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If you look up the website of the late Australian philosopher David Stove, you will find the following mysterious announcement:…
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There are elements of a fairy story, as the Mayor of Paris noted, in the marriage the other day of…
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There are elements of a fairy story, as the Mayor of Paris noted, in the marriage the other day of…
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I had never met the Minister for Finance in NSW, Dominic Perrottet, and knew little about him when I went…
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I had never met the Minister for Finance in NSW, Dominic Perrottet, and knew little about him when I went…
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The Prime Minister and the journalist Greg Sheridan go back a long way. The other evening in Sydney’s Parliament House,…
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The Prime Minister and the journalist Greg Sheridan go back a long way. The other evening in Sydney’s Parliament House,…
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Who won the wooden spoon for obtuseness among the swarm of the ABC’s apologists for putting Zaky Mallah on Q&A?…
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Who won the wooden spoon for obtuseness among the swarm of the ABC’s apologists for putting Zaky Mallah on Q&A?…
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I had occasion the other day to dig up a piece I had written 50 years ago for Geoffrey Dutton’s…
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I had occasion the other day to dig up a piece I had written 50 years ago for Geoffrey Dutton’s…
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It was back in the mists of time but I easily recall the day in September 1961 when I dropped…
