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Watching the feral soap-dodgers Any other celebrity would be dozing in the VIP lounge, but I write from Sydney…
Australian notes
Compare and contrast So it’s coming up to a year since one Donald Trump was inaugurated as the 45th president…
Australian notes
The Textorising of the right Let me make a confession, one that should you utter it out loud would mark…
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There is a fascinating force at work in Australian politics. Have you noticed how Fairfax, the ALP-Green axis, the ABC…
Simon Collins
While Tinseltown gets on with outing the sex pests in its senior ranks it’s too soon to say if it…
Australian notes
The Bennelong bedwetter Some say that this innovative and agile Team Turnbull government continues to go from strength to strength.…
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Western Civilisation Of late, Western Civilisation has been copping a lot of flack. It seems that the West is to…
Australian notes
John Howard and the black hand It is not particularly far-fetched to claim that the Liberal Party is in big…
Simon Collins
In a couple of weeks we’ll know whether the last 5 million votes in the same-sex marriage postal survey confirmed…
Australian Notes
Four pillars of the Museum Bob, my husband of more than half a century, was born in Tsing Tao,…
Australian notes
Black-on-black hate The problem of violence in Aboriginal communities is well known to anyone with an interest in Aboriginal affairs.…
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There was something touchingly naïve about the award of the Nobel Peace Prize to the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear…
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Bugger off, Boris I observed, in this illustrious journal, on 5 March 2016 that, if Brexit succeeded, Boris Johnson could…
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I have been making a sort of trial balance on the same-sex marriage campaign; not the nitty gritty of the…
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Here at the Spectator Australia Electoral Reform Unit we are pressing on with our major project to improve the electoral…
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Black lives matter Black tennis player Sloane Stephens won the recent US Open. She beat Venus Williams in the semi-final.…
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What an amazing contrast. Here I am in Bayreuth, Bavaria, to see Richard Wagner’s monumental Ring Cycle, probably the greatest…
Simon Collins
Hate gets a bad rap these days. Children are taught that they mustn’t hate each other, divorcees are counselled not…
Australian notes
Would Bill Shorten’s plan for government take Australia in the direction of East Germany, as Finance Senator Mathias Cormann has…
Australian notes
Shorten must be stopped For once, Malcolm Turnbull’s current travails are not all his own fault. The Prime Minister could…
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On Noel and Richo Last week in the Australian Noel Pearson wrote a piece responding to Graham Richardson’s earlier claim…
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You might think that with the nation mesmerised by the proposal to legalise marriage between consenting New Zealand sheep farmers,…
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LGBTI marriage is not a right. LGBTI marriage is not a right, but freedom of religion, or freedom to disagree…
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On my first visit to Darwin twenty odd years ago to cover the annual Aboriginal art awards a number of…
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I was absolutely thrilled to read that Senator Arthur Sinodinos will not be prosecuted by the New South Wales Independent…
