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Brexit, 1381 ad, and Turnbull’s election Well, the Brits did it. They defied the warnings and threats from ‘I got…
Australian notes
Brexit, Del-cons and Trumpkins Later this week it begins. The voters will have their say. First it will happen in…
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I don’t agree with the mainstream media that the election campaign has been dull and boring, except when the media…
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Raise the age for compulsory voting I grind my teeth whenever I see bearded twenty-something men in their hipster gear…
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Raise the age for compulsory voting I grind my teeth whenever I see bearded twenty-something men in their hipster gear…
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Raise the age for compulsory voting I grind my teeth whenever I see bearded twenty-something men in their hipster gear…
Australian notes
The pundits keep telling us that this is a dull election. But imagine what it would be like without the…
Simon Collins
Whether or not Australians get to vote on the subject of gay marriage later this year, nobody would dispute the…
Australian notes
I love Malcolm, but where is he when you need him? ‘This isn’t the Malcolm Turnbull Australians thought they…
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No-one should have been surprised when Greens Senator Richard Di Natale was sprung last week for paying his three employees…
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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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…
