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Australian notes

21 June 2014 8:00 am

So despite being ‘well-meaning’ I am, according to Peter Manning in last week’s Sun-Herald, some sort of ‘racist’. This became…

Australian notes

19 June 2014 1:00 pm

So despite being ‘well-meaning’ I am, according to Peter Manning in last week’s Sun-Herald, some sort of ‘racist’. This became…

Brown Study

14 June 2014 9:00 am

Those of you who have read this column recently know that what has been agitating me is the expansion of…

Australian notes

14 June 2014 9:00 am

Q&A is the ABC’s TV show on which on one famous occasion an anti-Iraq war activist threw his shoes at…

Australian notes

12 June 2014 1:00 pm

Q&A is the ABC’s TV show on which on one famous occasion an anti-Iraq war activist threw his shoes at…

Brown Study

7 June 2014 9:00 am

I agree with Lucy Turnbull about Malcolm’s dinner with Clive Palmer. Her father Tom Hughes used to be in politics…

Australian notes

7 June 2014 9:00 am

What can anyone do to change the world? Can any of us, for example, strike a blow that matters against…

Australian notes

5 June 2014 1:00 pm

What can anyone do to change the world? Can any of us, for example, strike a blow that matters against…

Brown Study

31 May 2014 9:00 am

I do not like talking about personalities in politics. What is at stake is too important to be channelled through…

Australian notes

31 May 2014 9:00 am

When told of the death of the philosopher David Armstrong, the Prime Minister Tony Abbott had this to say: ‘David…

Australian notes

29 May 2014 1:00 pm

When told of the death of the philosopher David Armstrong, the Prime Minister Tony Abbott had this to say: ‘David…

Brown study

24 May 2014 9:00 am

It is a minority opinion, but to me there seems to be a remarkable lack of passion and enthusiasm in…

Australian Notes

24 May 2014 9:00 am

I first met David Armstrong early in 1947 when, recently discharged from the Navy, he arrived at Sydney University and…

Australian Notes

22 May 2014 1:00 pm

I first met David Armstrong early in 1947 when, recently discharged from the Navy, he arrived at Sydney University and…

Australian Notes

17 May 2014 9:00 am

At going to press The Spectator Australia learnt of the death of David Armstrong, the greatest philosopher Australia has produced.…

Brown Study

17 May 2014 9:00 am

It looks as if at long last we have a government that is prepared to make some hard and unpopular,…

Australian Notes

15 May 2014 1:00 pm

At going to press The Spectator Australia learnt of the death of David Armstrong, the greatest philosopher Australia has produced.…

Australian Notes

10 May 2014 9:00 am

You really have to go to Washington DC to see the decline and fall of the United States or at…

Brown Study

10 May 2014 9:00 am

I devoted most of last weekend to attending the conference of the Institute of Arbitrators and Mediators Australia in Canberra.…

Australian Notes

8 May 2014 1:00 pm

You really have to go to Washington DC to see the decline and fall of the United States or at…

Brown Study

3 May 2014 9:00 am

Our criticism of the ABC loses its credibility if we do not praise it on those occasions when praise is…

Australian Notes

3 May 2014 9:00 am

So Malcolm Fraser’s new hero is Dr H.V. Evatt. This is how Robert Manne sees it in his long and…

Australian Notes

1 May 2014 1:00 pm

So Malcolm Fraser’s new hero is Dr H.V. Evatt. This is how Robert Manne sees it in his long and…

Brown Study

26 April 2014 9:00 am

There are now another 156 reasons for keeping our constitutional monarchy, for that is the number of leading barristers who…

Australian Notes

26 April 2014 9:00 am

I first came across Neville Wran back in January 1946. Just out of school but not yet enrolled in Sydney…