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Brown study
I knew that if I waited long enough I would stumble on an item of public expenditure that was not…
Latham’s law
Just when the health system in inner-Melbourne and Sydney was coming to terms with the psychotic conditions caused by Donald…
Brown study
The outcome of last weekend’s by-elections was the natural result of the Liberal party sending itself spiralling into turmoil when…
Simon Collins
In a few years’ time the only clue that the name Fairfax was ever synonymous with wealth and influence in…
Latham’s law
It was the best news Fairfax ever published: the story of its demise. Yet to listen to the wailing Fairfax…
Brown study
Poor Malcolm Turnbull gets such a bad press that it is good to have an opportunity to congratulate him on…
Latham’s law
Before his death in July 1826, Thomas Jefferson wrote the epitaph for his own gravestone and insisted it carry ‘not…
Dear Paul
Three major articles by the Australian’s editor-at-large Paul Kelly, and Tony Abbott’s even more major Heritage Foundation speech in Washington,…
Brown study
One of the more obvious features of left-leaning luvvies is that they are all stupid. They simply cannot think straight,…
Simon Collins
Like most Australian men I am horrified by reports which attest to the ubiquity of violence against our womenfolk. But…
Latham’s law
Have new communication technologies suddenly become dangerous? I always thought texting on whiz-bang iPhones was a good thing.If my daughter’s…
Brown study
You may not realise it, but you are walking with history, for a Political Scandal of the Third Kind is…
Simon Collins
Some years ago, as a judge on one of adland’s more obscure international awards panels, I had to assess the…
Latham’s law
Every parent knows the problem. An errant child who is always telling lies, whether it’s ‘I didn’t take them’, ‘I…
Brown study
As language is a living thing, a mirror of current but ever-changing social mores, we have added two new definitions…
Latham’s law
The education system used to be so straightforward. But now, with the classics of Western civilisation being chucked into the…
Australian notes
Universities of the closed mind A series of leaked emails reveal the depths of prejudice and groupthink at Australia’s universities.…
Brown study
The monstrous rape and murder of Eurydice Dixon has cast a pall over Melbourne and it is only right and…
Latham’s law
At last, there’s a break in the weather. As identity politics has swept across Australia like a crackling thunderstorm, drenching…
Australian notes
Western Civ That the Australian National University has rejected funding to establish a Ramsay Centre for Western Civilisation proves how…
Brown study
The Barbarians are at it again. If it is not statues they want to desecrate, it is the names of…
Simon Collins
Harry and Meghan’s big day was such a media roadblock in Australia that there were about fifteen hours when it…
Latham’s law
What was Paul Ramsay thinking? In dedicating part of his estate’s $3 billion endowment to course work at an Australian…
Brown study
It is hard to be original about the Joyce-Kardashian interview, but there are two points worth making. First, it was…
Australian notes
On Republicanism The spectacle of so many grisly celebrities clustered together at the royal wedding reminded me why I was…
