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If anything happened to disrupt our imports of oil and fuel, such as a blockade of shipping through the South…
Simon Collins
In the early 1980s I went out briefly with the daughter of a Thatcher cabinet minister, and spent several evenings…
Australian notes
On academic freedom The dismissal of Tim Anderson from his academic post at the University of Sydney has triggered a…
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A few weeks ago we drew attention to some significant reforms to the electoral law in the Democratic Republic of…
Simon Collins
If there is anything which can be relied upon to bring a nation together better than the achievements of its…
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The appointment of Ita Buttrose as the new Chair of the ABC is another step back from making it truly…
Australian notes
Let’s emulate Jordan Jordan Peterson’s much-hyped performance on Q&A was a model of reasonable discussion. As long as the ABC…
Simon Collins
Queensland may have thrown in the towel in its wars with the cane toad, the rabbit and the crown-of-thorns starfish,…
Brown study
The iconic Australian company, Bradbury’s Chocolates, has just concluded its search for the sensible centre. But the dismal results obtained…
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The Spectator Australia Electoral Reform Unit, working in secrecy behind its heavily fortified premises at Belconnen in the ACT, has…
Simon Collins
Two weeks ago on this page I complained about how rarely mainstream Australian media uses the word ‘masculinity’ without the…
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The absurd contribution by Thomas Vargas, the head of the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) in Indonesia, to the refugee issue…
Australian notes
For me, at least, this year’s Australia Day was preceded somewhat significantly two days earlier by a vast four page…
Simon Collins
Underpinning Orwell’s most chilling dystopian vision was the belief that controlling what people say is half way to controlling what…
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This column has now embarked on a series of articles to prepare you for the coming election season. Our policy…
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As this is an election year, I would like to bring you up-to-date on the ground-breaking research that the Spectator…
Simon Collins
If you still haven’t got around to making a New Year’s resolution, why not make one you won’t be able…
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Here at the United Nations Cultural Reform Centre we are working on a major project that will help deliver us…
Australian notes
How on earth can we ensure that 2019 is a more positive and constructive year than the last one? Australia…
Australian notes
Students lacking the basics I am a law professor at the University of Queensland, a G8 university and one of…
Brown study
As Head Master of Robert Menzies Grammar, it gives me less pleasure than usual to report on the boys and…
Australian notes
Good trouble I arrive in Australia to feverish talk of a rebellion. There has been a ‘teenage revolt’. A mass…
Simon Collins
Last week a friend invited me to the final year art students’ show at the University of NSW. As I…
Simon Collins
In the England of my childhood, greengrocers were heavily reliant on South African farmers. This was still the case when…
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There was something ritualistic about the latest terrorist outrage in Melbourne. True, it was hideous from the moment that Hassan…
