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28 May 2016 9:00 am

Colin Dillon – Straight shooter   In times of shrill complaint, it is worth contemplating the life and career of…

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26 May 2016 1:00 pm

Colin Dillon – Straight shooter   In times of shrill complaint, it is worth contemplating the life and career of…

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26 May 2016 1:00 pm

Colin Dillon – Straight shooter   In times of shrill complaint, it is worth contemplating the life and career of…

Australian notes

26 May 2016 1:00 pm

I dropped in the other day to the Sydney Writers’ Festival to hear Stan Grant deliver his autobiographical and sometimes…

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21 May 2016 9:00 am

We owe the New York Times a debt of enormous gratitude for exposing Donald Trump as the misogynist and woman…

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30 April 2016 9:00 am

I suppose I must be the only person in Australia who has read, re-read and underlined Niki Savva’s The Road…

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30 April 2016 9:00 am

Breivik: murderous fascist having a lend If a measure of civilisation is the absence of violence (see Steven Pinker’s The…

Australian notes

30 April 2016 9:00 am

Irony of ironies: Abbott to save Turnbull? Putting Malcolm Turnbull in the Lodge has not worked out as the conspirators…

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28 April 2016 1:00 pm

Breivik: murderous fascist having a lend If a measure of civilisation is the absence of violence (see Steven Pinker’s The…

Consider this…

28 April 2016 1:00 pm

Breivik: murderous fascist having a lend If a measure of civilisation is the absence of violence (see Steven Pinker’s The…

Simon Collins

23 April 2016 9:00 am

Given the popularity of Channel 10’s I’m a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here it’s hardly surprising that other networks…

Australian notes

23 April 2016 9:00 am

Same sex marriage? just give me Democracy There are few conceivable contexts whereby one could say ‘I believe in democracy’…

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16 April 2016 9:00 am

As you know, I have always been at the forefront of the fight against discrimination, especially the evil variety that…

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2 April 2016 9:00 am

A new authoritarianism has descended. There now seems to be a list of official beliefs we are allowed to hold…

Australian notes

2 April 2016 9:00 am

The New Atheists – clever, uncompromising, polite – seized the initiative only a few years ago, at least in publishing.…

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2 April 2016 9:00 am

Unrelenting school lobby   ‘Needs based [school] funding is used as a proxy for arguments for more funding.’ Indeed it…

Simon Collins

2 April 2016 9:00 am

Crosses may have huge symbolic significance for Christians but the physical reality of crucifixion is something most of us only…

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31 March 2016 2:00 pm

Unrelenting school lobby   ‘Needs based [school] funding is used as a proxy for arguments for more funding.’ Indeed it…

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31 March 2016 2:00 pm

Unrelenting school lobby   ‘Needs based [school] funding is used as a proxy for arguments for more funding.’ Indeed it…

Australian notes

31 March 2016 2:00 pm

The New Atheists – clever, uncompromising, polite – seized the initiative only a few years ago, at least in publishing.…

Brown study

5 March 2016 9:00 am

After this year’s shambles, I thought I would get in early and nominate Alice Kunek as Australian of the Year…

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5 March 2016 9:00 am

Boris Brexit? The British vote on exit from the EU, commonly known as Brexit, may become Boris Johnson’s entry to…

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3 March 2016 3:00 pm

Boris Brexit? The British vote on exit from the EU, commonly known as Brexit, may become Boris Johnson’s entry to…

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3 March 2016 3:00 pm

Boris Brexit? The British vote on exit from the EU, commonly known as Brexit, may become Boris Johnson’s entry to…

Brown study

27 February 2016 9:00 am

As The Spectator Australia is a journal of record, it should be noted here that Andrew Jones, the former Liberal…