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Colin Dillon – Straight shooter In times of shrill complaint, it is worth contemplating the life and career of…
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Colin Dillon – Straight shooter In times of shrill complaint, it is worth contemplating the life and career of…
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Colin Dillon – Straight shooter In times of shrill complaint, it is worth contemplating the life and career of…
Australian notes
I dropped in the other day to the Sydney Writers’ Festival to hear Stan Grant deliver his autobiographical and sometimes…
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We owe the New York Times a debt of enormous gratitude for exposing Donald Trump as the misogynist and woman…
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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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Breivik: murderous fascist having a lend If a measure of civilisation is the absence of violence (see Steven Pinker’s The…
Australian notes
Irony of ironies: Abbott to save Turnbull? Putting Malcolm Turnbull in the Lodge has not worked out as the conspirators…
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Breivik: murderous fascist having a lend If a measure of civilisation is the absence of violence (see Steven Pinker’s The…
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Breivik: murderous fascist having a lend If a measure of civilisation is the absence of violence (see Steven Pinker’s The…
Simon Collins
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
Same sex marriage? just give me Democracy There are few conceivable contexts whereby one could say ‘I believe in democracy’…
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As you know, I have always been at the forefront of the fight against discrimination, especially the evil variety that…
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A new authoritarianism has descended. There now seems to be a list of official beliefs we are allowed to hold…
Australian notes
The New Atheists – clever, uncompromising, polite – seized the initiative only a few years ago, at least in publishing.…
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Unrelenting school lobby ‘Needs based [school] funding is used as a proxy for arguments for more funding.’ Indeed it…
Simon Collins
Crosses may have huge symbolic significance for Christians but the physical reality of crucifixion is something most of us only…
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Unrelenting school lobby ‘Needs based [school] funding is used as a proxy for arguments for more funding.’ Indeed it…
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Unrelenting school lobby ‘Needs based [school] funding is used as a proxy for arguments for more funding.’ Indeed it…
Australian notes
The New Atheists – clever, uncompromising, polite – seized the initiative only a few years ago, at least in publishing.…
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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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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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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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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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As The Spectator Australia is a journal of record, it should be noted here that Andrew Jones, the former Liberal…





