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Brown study

11 February 2017 9:00 am

Until a few days ago I was planning to start this column with: ‘Have you noticed how the heat has…

Brown study

9 February 2017 3:00 pm

Until a few days ago I was planning to start this column with: ‘Have you noticed how the heat has…

Brown study

4 February 2017 9:00 am

A few weeks ago I told you about two particularly nasty and brutal attacks on our local jewelry store in…

Australian notes

4 February 2017 9:00 am

Invasion of the farm snatchers As part of its curious strategy of attacking its base, the Turnbull government seems intent…

Brown study

28 January 2017 9:00 am

One day about 20 years ago, I was walking down Fitzroy Street, St Kilda, giving a word of encouragement here…

Brown study

21 January 2017 9:00 am

I should stop saying I am appalled by every new horror that arises in public life; there are so many…

Simon Collins

21 January 2017 9:00 am

As I write this the Trump inauguration is still three days away, so the US intelligence community still has time…

Brown study

14 January 2017 9:00 am

The Sussan Ley scandal highlights the monumental problem facing the Turnbull government in restoring its public standing to anything remotely…

Australian notes

14 January 2017 9:00 am

I’ve just returned from my fifth trip to Israel in the last decade. It prompted me to recall a conversation…

Australian notes

7 January 2017 9:00 am

Malcolm the Fission Fiasco I don’t agree with all those many right-of-centre commentators who think the current Prime Minister, Mr…

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29 December 2016 3:00 pm

Integration is backPeter Dutton has signalled that provisional migrants should be treated as temporary residents until they have ‘proven their…

Consider this…

29 December 2016 3:00 pm

Integration is backPeter Dutton has signalled that provisional migrants should be treated as temporary residents until they have ‘proven their…

Brown study

29 December 2016 3:00 pm

Here at the Spectator Australia Electoral Reform Unit, we certainly had our hands full in 2016, what with Brexit, and…

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29 December 2016 3:00 pm

Integration is backPeter Dutton has signalled that provisional migrants should be treated as temporary residents until they have ‘proven their…

Brown study

10 December 2016 9:00 am

My christmas stocking fillers An exciting group of new and emerging writers exploded onto the literary scene in 2016. So,…

Latham’s law

10 December 2016 9:00 am

In this era of media lists – such as Fitzy and Wippa counting down the Top 20 Mind-Numbingly Trivial Celebrity…

Australian notes

10 December 2016 9:00 am

In her defence of her wretched Human Rights Commission, Gillian Triggs boasted that the Commission has been processing some 22,000…

Australian notes

8 December 2016 3:00 pm

In her defence of her wretched Human Rights Commission, Gillian Triggs boasted that the Commission has been processing some 22,000…

Simon Collins

26 November 2016 9:00 am

Forget Thredbo, Charlotte Pass and Falls Creek; Australia’s best skiing conditions are to be found in Canberra! For reasons which…

Latham’s Law

26 November 2016 9:00 am

President Dropkick & The US Confusion Centre When an obscure, unelected committee, rising up from the bottom of Canberra’s bureaucratic…

Latham’s law

19 November 2016 9:00 am

I have a confession to make. When late last year, on the ill-fated panel show The Verdict, I publicly declared…

Brown study

19 November 2016 9:00 am

Of all the hare-brained ideas that governments come up with, the deal with the US to take refugees from Manus…

Brown study

12 November 2016 9:00 am

I have a terrible confession to make. No, it is not that I was a bully at school, or even…

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12 November 2016 9:00 am

Kill the Commission: free speech There is nothing that the Australian Human Rights Commission does that cannot be done by…

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10 November 2016 3:00 pm

Kill the Commission: free speech There is nothing that the Australian Human Rights Commission does that cannot be done by…