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Neither ‘Albo’ Albanese nor Billy Shorten will be the next Labor prime minister, according to John Howard. This is partly…
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With the unrelenting march of time, I have been giving a lot of thought to what I want to do…
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At Julia Gillard’s triumphal rallies, her ecstatic audiences applauded the idea that her valour in standing up to misogyny will…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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,…
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As this period before an election is like the night before Christmas, it might be an appropriate time to draw…
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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…
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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.…
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Like hanging, an election concentrates the mind, at least if you are a political junkie. So I suppose it is…
Australian Notes
While Kevin Rudd was making his way to Yarralumla last Sunday, Tony Abbott was in Sydney’s Chinatown with Julie Bishop…
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The economic problems of the US are substantial. The recovery is staggering along with occasional bursts of energy, but by…
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It was a stoic little gathering of Craig Thomson loyalists in the Celebrity Room of City Tatts in Sydney. Promoted…
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More from Poor Peter’s Almanac: Kevin Rudd is disliked by all who know him but is popular on television. Tony…
