Columnists Australia
Business/Robbery etc
The leaks that sank the tax havens
Australian notes
In taking action for defamation Treasurer Joe Hockey is breaking a great Parliamentary convention, according to Mark Latham. He was…
Brown study
It is profoundly disturbing that the Liberal Party seems to have taken leave of its senses again and is about…
Australian notes
The influential American journal Foreign Affairs has not published an article about Australian foreign policy for fifty years. Prime Minister…
Australian notes
The influential American journal Foreign Affairs has not published an article about Australian foreign policy for fifty years. Prime Minister…
Australian notes
It was one of the Prime Minister’s best speeches. He was clear, eloquent and convincing. Clear about the terrorist threats…
Business/Robbery etc
Iron Ore’s Vale of Tears
Australian notes
It was one of the Prime Minister’s best speeches. He was clear, eloquent and convincing. Clear about the terrorist threats…
Australian notes
There were no milling TV crews or reporters at Peter Costello’s launch last week in Melbourne of the new edition…
Australian notes
There were no milling TV crews or reporters at Peter Costello’s launch last week in Melbourne of the new edition…
Australian notes
Quos deus vult perdere, prius dementat – with apologies to Boswell. (‘Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad.’)…
Business/Robbery etc
Sour grapes - or inside knowledge?
Australian notes
Quos deus vult perdere, prius dementat – with apologies to Boswell. (‘Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad.’)…
Australian notes
The remarkable thing about Tony Abbott’s speech to the National Press Club was how unremarkable it was. There were no…
Australian notes
The remarkable thing about Tony Abbott’s speech to the National Press Club was how unremarkable it was. There were no…
Australian notes
The Queen has conferred knighthoods on the Americans Bill Gates and Norman Schwarzkopf. She appointed South Africa’s Nelson Mandela to…
Business/Robbery etc
New hope or no hope?
Australian notes
The Queen has conferred knighthoods on the Americans Bill Gates and Norman Schwarzkopf. She appointed South Africa’s Nelson Mandela to…
Australian notes
Baffling that so many observers had so much trouble interpreting the recent Charlie Hebdo cover on which Mohammed is depicted…
Australian notes
Baffling that so many observers had so much trouble interpreting the recent Charlie Hebdo cover on which Mohammed is depicted…
Australian notes
It must have been one of the last cartoons he drew before he was murdered. The editor of Charlie Hebdo…
Business/Robbery etc
The Australian National University’s ‘ethical’ dumping of $16 million in Australian resource stocks last October has progressed from ‘stupid’ (as…
Australian notes
It must have been one of the last cartoons he drew before he was murdered. The editor of Charlie Hebdo…
Australian notes
If only Tony Abbott could bring the conviction and even eloquence he demonstrated in Baghdad to bear on the Budget…
Australian notes
If only Tony Abbott could bring the conviction and even eloquence he demonstrated in Baghdad to bear on the Budget…





