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The news from Ukraine over the last few days has been treated as if the war were over, Ukraine had…
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It is good that the debate on the so-called aboriginal Voice to parliament is taking shape. It is therefore time…
Australian notes
For Australians of the second world war generation, the name Guadalcanal engenders immediate thoughts and emotions about some of the…
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Those of my readers who do not reside in Melbourne may not be aware of the significant event underway in…
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Scott Morrison’s secret appointment of himself as the minister for five departments was certainly bizarre. However, it was clearly lawful,…
Australian notes
The defection of a number of Australian Anglicans from their Church might not seem of more than local importance but…
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Here at the Burkina Faso embassy to the United Nations, we have been working tirelessly on the most significant inquiry…
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When I was an MP, ‘details’ was my middle name. Whenever we had a brain-snap about the latest way to…
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Unfortunately, we live in times of rampant corruption in civil society and a complete lack of integrity and morals in…
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The good news that has just come to hand is that the federal government has decided to keep as a…
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What an extraordinary turn of events. After years of Liberal party waste and profligacy in government spending, we might just…
Australian notes
The past two years have seen the trust many Australians’ have in their institutions brought to an all-time low through…
Australian notes
On this page last election eve I wrote, ‘Mums and dads across the country look set to elect a Labor…
Libs have lost the plot on transgender
There’s something in the water in Warringah. At the last election, when Tony Abbott lost to Zali Steggall, and now…
Australian notes
As I was driving home on Saturday after a busy day, I realised that everything I had done that day,…
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Sorry to say this – but apologies by political figures seem to have become completely meaningless. In a visit to…
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Snot catches some of the 50 million particles inhaled with every breath. These particles are one hundredth the size of…
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Why on earth are we stopping people who want to work from working? I used to work at a community…
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The liberty that dare not speak its name Lord Alfred Douglas, young lover of the great Oscar Wilde, wrote a…
Latham’s law
Covid bedwetters have run out of beds to wet In Australia we haven’t got a Punxsutawney Phil but nevertheless, our…
Australian notes
Selling the dying Great Barrier Reef With the recent A$1billion announced to save the ‘dying’ Great Barrier Reef, I wonder…
Australian notes
A great reset of one’s own When the last long New South Wales lockdown was imposed, I was probably exhausted.…
Latham’s Law
Wokely awards Covid has denied Australia many essential freedoms but it hasn’t been able to stop the 2021 NSW Wokely…
Australian notes
The unbearable lightness of lying Ever since French President Emmanuel Macron told a credulous Australian media that he doesn’t think,…
Australian notes
Zut alors! The French have not forgiven the English for Brexit. As Clément Beaune, France’s Minister for European Affairs, said…
