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Australian Notes
The Quadrant dinner in Sydney was held in ‘a semi-secure, undisclosed location.’ Or so Roger Kimball, tongue-in-cheek, blogged back to…
Brown Study
The success of Tony Abbott and Julie Bishop in handling the aftermath of the ghastly events in Ukraine has been…
Australian notes
You lookin’ for Joe?’ asked the road-worker, probably one of Joe’s constituents, as I parked and cast around for the…
Australian notes
You lookin’ for Joe?’ asked the road-worker, probably one of Joe’s constituents, as I parked and cast around for the…
Brown Study
Being an insomniac, I woke about 4 a.m. last Friday, turned on the BBC and there was the news already,…
Australian Notes
At first Moscow dubbed ‘unacceptable’ Tony Abbott’s brief speeches in Parliament and elsewhere on the downing of the Malaysian airliner…
Australian Notes
At first Moscow dubbed ‘unacceptable’ Tony Abbott’s brief speeches in Parliament and elsewhere on the downing of the Malaysian airliner…
Brown Study
I wonder if you have noticed that the public response here and overseas to the current Middle Eastern crisis has…
Australian Notes
Forget about a double dissolution. Tony Abbott knows it would not only help Clive Palmer. It would help Billy Shorten…
Australian Notes
Forget about a double dissolution. Tony Abbott knows it would not only help Clive Palmer. It would help Billy Shorten…
Brown Study
I feel as if I am writing the Diary this week, as I recount the ups and downs of my…
Australian notes
‘We have the full range of politics here tonight — from the hard Left to the soft Left.’ The ABC’s…
Australian notes
‘We have the full range of politics here tonight — from the hard Left to the soft Left.’ The ABC’s…
Brown Study
I hope the proposals from the one- man committee of inquiry to make the ABC and SBS ‘more commercial’ are…
Australian Notes
When bombed in England bluff Bob Menzies Gave way to paranoiac frenzies; And other news like this to gladden The…
Australian Notes
When bombed in England bluff Bob Menzies Gave way to paranoiac frenzies; And other news like this to gladden The…
Brown Study
A column like this cannot ignore the terrible events in the Middle East as Iraq falls apart from bloody-mindedness, Islamic…
Australian notes
The back page of the New York Times put it well. It was an empty broadsheet page except for the…
Australian notes
The back page of the New York Times put it well. It was an empty broadsheet page except for the…
Brown Study
I originally thought the Abbott/Hockey budget was pretty sensible and logical in terms of the financial crisis facing the country;…
Australian notes
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
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
Those of you who have read this column recently know that what has been agitating me is the expansion of…
Australian notes
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
Q&A is the ABC’s TV show on which on one famous occasion an anti-Iraq war activist threw his shoes at…
