Columnists Australia

Business/Robbery etc

14 March 2015 9:00 am

The leaks that sank the tax havens

Australian notes

12 March 2015 11:30 am

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

Brown study

7 March 2015 9:00 am

It is profoundly disturbing that the Liberal Party seems to have taken leave of its senses again and is about…

Australian notes

7 March 2015 9:00 am

The influential American journal Foreign Affairs has not published an article about Australian foreign policy for fifty years. Prime Minister…

Australian notes

5 March 2015 11:30 am

The influential American journal Foreign Affairs has not published an article about Australian foreign policy for fifty years. Prime Minister…

Australian notes

28 February 2015 9:00 am

It was one of the Prime Minister’s best speeches. He was clear, eloquent and convincing. Clear about the terrorist threats…

Business/Robbery etc

28 February 2015 9:00 am

Iron Ore’s Vale of Tears

Australian notes

26 February 2015 11:30 am

It was one of the Prime Minister’s best speeches. He was clear, eloquent and convincing. Clear about the terrorist threats…

Australian notes

21 February 2015 9:00 am

There were no milling TV crews or reporters at Peter Costello’s launch last week in Melbourne of the new edition…

Australian notes

19 February 2015 2:00 pm

There were no milling TV crews or reporters at Peter Costello’s launch last week in Melbourne of the new edition…

Australian notes

14 February 2015 9:00 am

Quos deus vult perdere, prius dementat – with apologies to Boswell. (‘Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad.’)…

Business/Robbery etc

14 February 2015 9:00 am

Sour grapes - or inside knowledge?

Australian notes

12 February 2015 2:00 pm

Quos deus vult perdere, prius dementat – with apologies to Boswell. (‘Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad.’)…

Australian notes

7 February 2015 9:00 am

The remarkable thing about Tony Abbott’s speech to the National Press Club was how unremarkable it was. There were no…

Australian notes

5 February 2015 2:00 pm

The remarkable thing about Tony Abbott’s speech to the National Press Club was how unremarkable it was. There were no…

Australian notes

31 January 2015 9:00 am

The Queen has conferred knighthoods on the Americans Bill Gates and Norman Schwarzkopf. She appointed South Africa’s Nelson Mandela to…

Business/Robbery etc

31 January 2015 9:00 am

New hope or no hope?

Australian notes

29 January 2015 2:00 pm

The Queen has conferred knighthoods on the Americans Bill Gates and Norman Schwarzkopf. She appointed South Africa’s Nelson Mandela to…

Australian notes

24 January 2015 9:00 am

Baffling that so many observers had so much trouble interpreting the recent Charlie Hebdo cover on which Mohammed is depicted…

Australian notes

22 January 2015 2:00 pm

Baffling that so many observers had so much trouble interpreting the recent Charlie Hebdo cover on which Mohammed is depicted…

Australian notes

17 January 2015 9:00 am

It must have been one of the last cartoons he drew before he was murdered. The editor of Charlie Hebdo…

Business/Robbery etc

17 January 2015 9:00 am

The Australian National University’s ‘ethical’ dumping of $16 million in Australian resource stocks last October has progressed from ‘stupid’ (as…

Australian notes

15 January 2015 2:00 pm

It must have been one of the last cartoons he drew before he was murdered. The editor of Charlie Hebdo…

Australian notes

10 January 2015 9:00 am

If only Tony Abbott could bring the conviction and even eloquence he demonstrated in Baghdad to bear on the Budget…

Australian notes

8 January 2015 2:00 pm

If only Tony Abbott could bring the conviction and even eloquence he demonstrated in Baghdad to bear on the Budget…