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The cheers of 180 celebrants (at $290 a head) echoed across the moonlit harbour from Pinchgut Island to the Opera…
Australian notes
The cheers of 180 celebrants (at $290 a head) echoed across the moonlit harbour from Pinchgut Island to the Opera…
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It is good to see that another personal memoir of Sir Robert and Dame Pattie Menzies has been published, this…
Australian notes
Neither ‘Albo’ Albanese nor Billy Shorten will be the next Labor prime minister, according to John Howard. This is partly…
Australian notes
Neither ‘Albo’ Albanese nor Billy Shorten will be the next Labor prime minister, according to John Howard. This is partly…
Brown study
With the unrelenting march of time, I have been giving a lot of thought to what I want to do…
Australian notes
At Julia Gillard’s triumphal rallies, her ecstatic audiences applauded the idea that her valour in standing up to misogyny will…
Australian notes
At Julia Gillard’s triumphal rallies, her ecstatic audiences applauded the idea that her valour in standing up to misogyny will…
Australian notes
David Marr, the celebrated journalist, has done it again. First he psychoanalysed the rabid Kevin Rudd in his essay Power…
Brown study
The other night, I listened to the so-called debate between Anthony Albanese and Bill Shorten as they vied for the…
Australian notes
David Marr, the celebrated journalist, has done it again. First he psychoanalysed the rabid Kevin Rudd in his essay Power…
Australian Notes
Will its allies around the world ever recover that confidence in the United States, which they lost with President Obama’s…
Brown study
September 7 was the first election day I have not spent handing out how-to-vote cards since I was 15. Not…
Australian Notes
Will its allies around the world ever recover that confidence in the United States, which they lost with President Obama’s…
Australian notes
Mr Putin suggests that Syria submit its chemical weapons to international control. Syria’s foreign minister thinks this is a good…
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After we had lobbed a few atom bombs on Japan in 1945, the Emperor delivered himself of the understatement of…
Australian notes
Mr Putin suggests that Syria submit its chemical weapons to international control. Syria’s foreign minister thinks this is a good…
Australian notes
They can’t help themselves. Despite the ancient warnings against counting chickens and the dreadful memory of the unlosable, but lost,…
Brown study
As this period before an election is like the night before Christmas, it might be an appropriate time to draw…
Brown Study
The other day I went to an unusual but worthwhile election event. The international law firm Norton Rose Fulbright had…
Australian Notes
The Labor party has no hope of winning the election unless something extraordinary happens in the next few days. Is…
Australian Notes
It was a great night in the Paddo RSL. It was an open-to-all public meeting to hear and question candidates…
Brown study
Some readers have said I have been uncharacteristically quiet on Tony Abbott’s paid parental leave scheme and want to know…
Australian Notes
Tony Abbott won the first debate marginally on both style and issues. Neither leader was faintly inspirational let alone charismatic.…
Brown study
Like hanging, an election concentrates the mind, at least if you are a political junkie. So I suppose it is…
