Columnists Australia
Brown study
As you know, here at The United Nations Cultural Reform Unit we have embarked on a major project to remake…
Brown study
You do not need me to recommend good books. But I will do it all the same, or at least…
Brown study
As we speak, a bright new class of newly-elected MPs and Senators is assembling in the cities, towns and remote…
Simon Collins
You keep yourself nice, you shake the right hands. You spend decades cultivating the good opinion of punters of every…
Brown study
The long march through our institutions goes on, and they are falling over like ninepins. The latest victim is the…
Latham’s law
Somewhere, most likely in a bunker buried beneath the ABC, there’s a Left-wing laboratory working overtime at inventing new slurs…
Brown study
I am afraid I cannot join in the universal and maudlin distress into which so many of our fellow citizens…
Simon Collins
It is unclear, at time of writing, whether an application to stage America’s inaugural Straight Pride Parade on the streets…
Brown Study
A few months ago, I was cleaning up my study to see what could usefully be discarded, so that my…
Simon Collins
Like many Speccie readers I’m old enough to remember when men smoked pipes on buses and tradies whistled. I can…
Brown study
Hillary Clinton lost the 2016 US election the day she called Donald Trump’s supporters ‘a basket of deplorables’. After that,…
Australian notes
Eleven random thoughts Let me start with a bow to those who thought it best to vote for Malcolm Turnbull…
Simon Collins
In a normal year, Easter is the only time when eggs play anything other than a nutritional part in Australian…
Brown study
You liked Pink Batts? You’ll love Funny Money! Why? Well, I am now convinced that the Liberal party has gone…
Brown study
Last week, candidates from all parties were starting to drop like flies as they were disendorsed by their parties for…
Brown study
I see that some members of the media have started referring to the election as ‘boring’. I disagree with them.…
Simon Collins
A wealthy, white, male, middle-aged American Christian takes his wife on holiday to Australia. Hiking through the Tasmanian wilderness one…
Australian notes
Labor’s water hypocrisy What water scandal? ‘I acted on the recommendations of my department which had conducted an independent, competitive…
Brown Study
Our serried ranks of interstate and overseas readers may not be aware that in the last two weeks Melbourne has…
Australian Notes
Golden transparency of surrogacy secrecy? How many times have you met a person and wondered if they could talk under…
Brown study
The federal parliament used to be a place of vigorous but respectful debate. Not now. I was reflecting on this…
Simon Collins
When Christopher Hitchens decided to qualify the title of his 2007 magnum opus God is not Great with the caption…
Brown study
There is something symbiotic about the fact that the federal Budget has been dropped on us just when the final…
Brown study
What do the ABC and the New Zealand terrorist horror have in common? Apart, I mean, from the fact that…
Simon Collins
There are two kinds of political figure who cannot be effectively satirised. One is the kind of leader who makes…
