Columnists Australia
Australian notes
That the Bureau of Meteorology could fake and corrupt weather temperature data, as so egregiously revealed recently in a forensic…
Australian notes
I sometimes wonder if Greg Sheridan reads his own columns. In last Saturday’s Australian he has penned a jeremiad which…
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I don’t know if Anthony Albanese actually learned anything from his recent sojourn at the United Nations, but I doubt…
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Any normal person would know that at my advanced age and imminent senility, the last thing I should be doing…
Australian notes
One of the unforeseen consequences of the war in Gaza has been a significant erosion of freedom of speech in…
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In the last week, Melongate has proceeded along its sordid way. But it has now taken on a new significance.…
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The Spectator Australia has just received a leak of the latest entry in the private diary of Anthony Albanese, Prime…
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That’s about it, for me and the Liberal party. For a while there, I had almost come back to its…
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It is curious that Anthony Albanese’s bizarre contribution to the podcast Bush Deep has been allowed to fade away from…
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Here at the Political Research Centre, we have just finished a major project involving no less an undertaking than setting…
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One of the more endearing features of life in Melbourne is the coverage given in the Age to the arts…
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Recently, an issue arose that was a milestone in public affairs. It surfaced in a speech by Justice Ian Jackman,…
Australian notes
Are we witnessing a historic moment in the cultural life of our nation? Are we seeing the first tentative stirrings…
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Melbourne is presently engaged in one of those uniquely Melburnian controversies where everyone has an opinion on some allegedly moral…
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I don’t normally do obituaries except, as the politicians and lawyers say, ‘in exceptional circumstances’. And there could be no…
Australian notes
If you thought we’d finally left clown world, think again. For months, the legal machinery of New South Wales geared…
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Here at the Free Enterprise Centre for Law Reform, we have been slaving away on some long-overdue improvements to the…
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When politicians talk about ‘reform’, I am instantly suspicious. If the good Dr Samuel Johnson was right in defining patriotism…
Australian notes
Even without the rise of One Nation’s vote, Labor has been moving inexorably to a position as the natural party…
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Until recently, I thought that Australia was free from the scourge of activist judges. But in view of events of…
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We keep being told that the coming budget will be the most significant for many a year. That may be…
Australian notes
In the book of great evasions of responsibility through history, a new chapter to be added concerns the prowess of…
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The Albanese government seems to have abandoned its plan to increase the size of the parliament and give us the…
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I watched on Tuesday the appearance at the National Press Club of the Israeli Ambassador to Australia, Dr Hillel Neuman.…
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It may seem strange to see me praising the Age. But Melburnians owe it an enormous debt for exposing major…
