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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…
Business/Robbery etc
Big oil, coal and iron ore producers are flooding the market to knock out rival - and China-friendly - suppliers
The Yanks are too childish to play rugby
Watching the American Eagles get slaughtered by the All-Blacks proved too much for the home crowd
Australian notes
It’s worth repeating. A British Prime Minister (the Earl of Derby) to Queen Victoria: ‘The definition of an Independent Member…
Brown study
I had hoped to bring you a cheery Christmas tale, but the political goings on in Melbourne and Canberra mean…
Australian notes
It’s worth repeating. A British Prime Minister (the Earl of Derby) to Queen Victoria: ‘The definition of an Independent Member…
Australian notes
The ABC’s Australian Story (‘Just Call Me Bob’) about the former Prime Minister Robert James Lee Hawke touched on many…
Business/Robbery etc
Millions of Australian investors can now sleep safely in their beds knowing that in November 2014 Jacqui Lambie and Ricky…
Australian notes
The ABC’s Australian Story (‘Just Call Me Bob’) about the former Prime Minister Robert James Lee Hawke touched on many…
Business/Robbery etc
No wonder so many Australians, from those with modest incomes to the very rich, now prefer to satisfy their compulsory…
Australian Notes
Right and proper that generous tributes are paid at a memorial service, even if sometimes undeserved or exaggerated. But what…
Australian Notes
Right and proper that generous tributes are paid at a memorial service, even if sometimes undeserved or exaggerated. But what…
CO2 notes
This year the world will enjoy its greatest grain crop on record. Let me say that again. This year the…
CO2 notes
This year the world will enjoy its greatest grain crop on record. Let me say that again. This year the…
South African notes
“Cape Town is a lot like Sydney,” an ex-pat yarpie had assured me. But as I’m driven through the township…
