Columnists Australia

Brown study

9 May 2015 9:00 am

If I thought there was free speech in Australia since the Andrew Bolt case, I would tell you what I…

Australian notes

7 May 2015 9:30 am

I have to concede that I was one of those who long years ago fell for a time under the…

Australian notes

2 May 2015 9:00 am

It will get worse before it gets worse… This is how the head of French intelligence described the current state…

Australian notes

30 April 2015 9:30 am

It will get worse before it gets worse… This is how the head of French intelligence described the current state…

Brown study

25 April 2015 9:00 am

I see that another parliamentary committee has been grappling with the dispute between the government and Gillian Triggs, and the…

Australian notes

25 April 2015 9:00 am

Malcolm Turnbull is never far from the front pages (or even the covers of men’s fashion magazines!) usually with stories…

Business/Robbery etc

25 April 2015 9:00 am

Bastardry is a small price to pay for economic reform

Australian notes

23 April 2015 9:30 am

Malcolm Turnbull is never far from the front pages (or even the covers of men’s fashion magazines!) usually with stories…

Consider this…

18 April 2015 9:00 am

Saving scientists, bureaucrats & the Great Barrier Reef Did you know that Christine Milne was Vice President of the International…

Australian notes

18 April 2015 9:00 am

I have over the years passed up many an opportunity to hear Keysar Trad in the flesh. Publicist, poet, media…

Consider this…

16 April 2015 9:30 am

Saving scientists, bureaucrats & the Great Barrier Reef Did you know that Christine Milne was Vice President of the International…

Consider this…

16 April 2015 9:30 am

Saving scientists, bureaucrats & the Great Barrier Reef Did you know that Christine Milne was Vice President of the International…

Australian notes

16 April 2015 9:30 am

I have over the years passed up many an opportunity to hear Keysar Trad in the flesh. Publicist, poet, media…

Business/Robbery etc

11 April 2015 9:00 am

Britain leads the way - but where?

Australian notes

11 April 2015 9:00 am

The mystique of Anzac Day has always been a challenge to historians. The troops of several countries at Gallipoli fought…

Australian notes

9 April 2015 9:30 am

The mystique of Anzac Day has always been a challenge to historians. The troops of several countries at Gallipoli fought…

Australian notes

4 April 2015 9:00 am

Where can the ALP turn? As the NSW election made plain, the Coalition occupies the reforming Centre and the Greens…

Australian notes

2 April 2015 10:30 am

Where can the ALP turn? As the NSW election made plain, the Coalition occupies the reforming Centre and the Greens…

Australian notes

28 March 2015 9:00 am

It was the only local meeting that I managed to get to in the NSW election campaigns. I expected the…

Business/Robbery etc

28 March 2015 9:00 am

How Malcolm Fraser lost his fiscal mojo

Tony, Nigel, and the older voter

28 March 2015 9:00 am

Could there be method in the madness of Tony Abbott’s list of politically incorrect ‘gaffes’?

Australian notes

26 March 2015 11:30 am

It was the only local meeting that I managed to get to in the NSW election campaigns. I expected the…

Australian notes

21 March 2015 9:00 am

It was more a rally of old hands recalling the glory days than a standard book launch. The venue was…

Australian notes

19 March 2015 11:30 am

It was more a rally of old hands recalling the glory days than a standard book launch. The venue was…

Australian notes

14 March 2015 9:00 am

In taking action for defamation Treasurer Joe Hockey is breaking a great Parliamentary convention, according to Mark Latham. He was…