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Australian notes
Until recently the anti-Israel BDS (Boycott Divestment Sanctions) movement was on its last legs in Australia. Few Australians had heard…
Australian notes
Cheers all round for Andrew Bolt who extracted an apology, however grudging, from the ABC for broadcasting false and defamatory…
Brown study
The next step has been taken in Victorian barristers’ consideration of changing their titles from the rather anodyne Senior Counsel…
Australian notes
Cheers all round for Andrew Bolt who extracted an apology, however grudging, from the ABC for broadcasting false and defamatory…
Brown study
I don’t want to harp about the ABC and I hope this will be my last contribution on that subject,…
Australian notes
An Aborigine, an Arab and a Jew enter a public bar. They look more worried than angry as they bear…
Australian notes
An Aborigine, an Arab and a Jew enter a public bar. They look more worried than angry as they bear…
Australian Notes
What an eccentric case the Race Discrimination Commissioner Tim Soutphommasane mounted against the federal government’s proposal to amend section 18C…
Brown study
During my illustrious career as Minister for Employment and Youth Affairs I had a visit from my counterpart in the…
Australian Notes
What an eccentric case the Race Discrimination Commissioner Tim Soutphommasane mounted against the federal government’s proposal to amend section 18C…
Brown study
I see that Kevin Rudd has been appointed to a teaching job in international politics at Harvard University, specialising in…
Australian notes
The Labor party and many journalists are scandalised (‘aghast’, ‘outraged’) by the Abbott government’s decision to accede to a request…
Australian notes
The Labor party and many journalists are scandalised (‘aghast’, ‘outraged’) by the Abbott government’s decision to accede to a request…
Australian Notes
In his eloquent ‘Closing the Gap’ speech Tony Abbott’s call to all Australians ‘to open their hearts’ to Aborigines was…
Brown study
I wonder why international leaders make decisions that are clearly against their own interests. There have been two recent examples.…
Australian Notes
In his eloquent ‘Closing the Gap’ speech Tony Abbott’s call to all Australians ‘to open their hearts’ to Aborigines was…
Australian Notes
A new class war is being mounted between those who feel for Schapelle Corby in her long ordeal in an…
Brown study
There are some loose ends about the ABC controversy that should be tidied up. First, it is interesting that the…
Notes from Iran
Now that I’ve moved into the silly old duffer age bracket, a lot of invitations to film festivals, as a…
Notes from Iran
Now that I’ve moved into the silly old duffer age bracket, a lot of invitations to film festivals, as a…
Australian Notes
A new class war is being mounted between those who feel for Schapelle Corby in her long ordeal in an…
Australian Noties
When Senator Eric Abetz was a raw youth of 23, he had what he calls an ‘instructive’ experience. A newly…
Brown Study
Writing about the need to reform the ABC is profoundly depressing. You can draw attention to its failure to provide…
Australian Noties
When Senator Eric Abetz was a raw youth of 23, he had what he calls an ‘instructive’ experience. A newly…
Australian Notes
A footnote to the Dolce Affair in which the literary-political magazine Overland has banned the work of the songwriter and…
