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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…

Consider this…

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…

Consider this…

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…

Brown study

5 November 2016 9:00 am

The FBI certainly stirred up the US election when it announced it had found more of Hillary Clinton’s emails on…

Simon Collins

29 October 2016 9:00 am

I can’t be the only Speccie reader who’s lost sleep thinking about the Crown Resort employees awaiting trial in China.…

Conservative Notes

29 October 2016 9:00 am

You’d be hard pressed to be overly optimistic about the state of conservative politics in the developed English-speaking world right…

Brown study

29 October 2016 9:00 am

Perhaps all is not lost. There might yet be hope for the education of our youth. Like many people, I…

QC notes

22 October 2016 9:00 am

Brandis is right, gleeson is wrong Normally, I would not get involved in disputes concerning politicians, as they should be…

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22 October 2016 9:00 am

The Aboriginal industry rewards its own Two former federal ministers have recently spoken on Aboriginal affairs. One has given a…

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20 October 2016 2:00 pm

The Aboriginal industry rewards its own Two former federal ministers have recently spoken on Aboriginal affairs. One has given a…

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20 October 2016 2:00 pm

The Aboriginal industry rewards its own Two former federal ministers have recently spoken on Aboriginal affairs. One has given a…

Consider this…

20 October 2016 2:00 pm

The Aboriginal industry rewards its own Two former federal ministers have recently spoken on Aboriginal affairs. One has given a…

Consider This

1 October 2016 9:00 am

The WHO is a closed shop ‘I for my part am convinced that the day will come when international health…

Consider This

29 September 2016 1:00 pm

The WHO is a closed shop ‘I for my part am convinced that the day will come when international health…

Consider This

29 September 2016 1:00 pm

The WHO is a closed shop ‘I for my part am convinced that the day will come when international health…

Australian notes

24 September 2016 9:00 am

Brexit, abbott, latham and team turnbull I just learned a fascinating fact. Apparently the voters in Britain actually voted to…