Columnists Australia

Simon Collins

13 May 2017 9:00 am

When Geoffrey Blainey’s seminal work The Tyranny of Distance first appeared in Dymocks’ window many people didn’t realise it was…

Australian notes

6 May 2017 9:00 am

The ABC of ESPN I confess to being something of a sports addict. I like playing and watching competitive sports,…

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29 April 2017 9:00 am

Your body belongs to the nation For a bloke who doesn’t mind a bit of regulation – you may recall…

Brown study

22 April 2017 9:00 am

As readers know, I have been engaged for the last year on a search for the ideal job. Having spent…

Australian notes

15 April 2017 9:00 am

Diversity’s hypocrites Let’s say that you’re a ‘diversity’ freak. What you want in life is to take some group X,…

Australian Notes

8 April 2017 9:00 am

Well, that was another depressingly terrible week for free speech in this country as political correctness and identity politics stayed…

Brown Study

8 April 2017 9:00 am

What a surprise! The newly appointed chairman of the ABC, Justin Milne plans to do nothing about bias on the…

Simon Collins

8 April 2017 9:00 am

Of all the names Mark Latham was called last week, the one which could most seriously affect his future employment…

Australian notes

1 April 2017 9:00 am

The Human Rights Commission must go Described by its leading victim, Bill Leak, as a ‘rogue totalitarian unit’, the Human…

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1 April 2017 9:00 am

IBM to back gay marriage postal vote? I presume that IBM (and every other corporation that backs gay marriage) would…

Australian notes

25 March 2017 9:00 am

Bill Leak used to say that Picasso changed his life. He was, he said, ‘a troubled youth’ of 16 years…

Brown study

25 March 2017 9:00 am

The government deserves two cheers for its changes to Section 18C which may do something towards restoring free speech. But…

Election notes

18 March 2017 9:00 am

Malcolm, take note… As the dust settles on the Western Australian election result, and Labor’s Mark McGowan sweeping to office…

Brown study

18 March 2017 9:00 am

My sadness at Bill Leak’s death is compounded by the fact that I never met him. But his influence on…

Australian notes

11 March 2017 9:00 am

When I was offered a full-time job here in 1994, my understanding of this country was limited to say the…

Australian notes

9 March 2017 3:00 pm

When I was offered a full-time job here in 1994, my understanding of this country was limited to say the…

Australian notes

4 March 2017 9:00 am

  ‘Malcolm Turnbull is Jewish.’ This was one of the newer Palestinian banners held high at the anti-Israel, anti-Netanyahu rally…

Brown study

4 March 2017 9:00 am

All good things come to an end and in my case I am rapidly coming to the end of one…

Simon Collins

4 March 2017 9:00 am

As a man without a faithful atom in his body I am fascinated by the phenomenon of radicalisation; the alchemical…

Australian notes

2 March 2017 3:00 pm

  ‘Malcolm Turnbull is Jewish.’ This was one of the newer Palestinian banners held high at the anti-Israel, anti-Netanyahu rally…

Brown study

2 March 2017 3:00 pm

All good things come to an end and in my case I am rapidly coming to the end of one…

Consider this…

25 February 2017 9:00 am

FGM: It’s whose fault? African immigrant, Khadiija Gbla, of No FGM Australia accused ‘the health system in Australia’ of ‘failing’…

Australian notes

25 February 2017 9:00 am

Tim wilson is wrong In this past Saturday’s Inquirer page, Liberal MP Tim Wilson – former Commissioner in the Australian…

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23 February 2017 3:00 pm

FGM: It’s whose fault? African immigrant, Khadiija Gbla, of No FGM Australia accused ‘the health system in Australia’ of ‘failing’…

Consider this…

23 February 2017 3:00 pm

FGM: It’s whose fault? African immigrant, Khadiija Gbla, of No FGM Australia accused ‘the health system in Australia’ of ‘failing’…