Columnists Australia
Simon Collins
After the cancellation of the Tokyo Olympics, the postponement of the 2020 Tour de France couldn’t have taken many people…
Brown study
I seem to be the only person in this country who is not cock-a-hoop about the lavish government package to…
Brown study
The Liberal Party Economic Research Unit, operating from its bijou office in Karl Marx House in Canberra, has been responsible…
Australian notes
Imagine, no Magna Carta All over the world, millions of people are being subjected by their respective governments to an…
Simon Collins
‘What did you do in the war, grandad?’ ‘I stayed in.’ If this really is a war, as we are…
Brown study
What with all the monumental stuff-ups by the public authorities in the campaign against coronavirus, it is not surprising that…
Brown study
As you know, the Spectator Australia Social Research Unit, operating behind heavily fortified premises in Canberra, has long been involved…
Australian notes
Everybody loves borders now What do Justin Trudeau, Jacinda Ardern, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the crazier fringe of the Greens party (here…
Simon Collins
I began my self-quarantine last week, after returning from London, but it wasn’t until five days later that the symptoms…
Biden is it
Give me sleepiness
Australian notes
Let’s be a lot more sceptical towards China
Brown study
As Chairman of Apologies Inc. I am pleased to report that we have had another bumper year and that business…
Simon Collins
A friend recently invited me to a Sydney gallery opening to see paintings by a group of first nations artists…
Australian notes
Enemies of free speech hide behind a bill of rights An intriguing feature of the debate about freedom of the…
Brown study
As is obvious from recent events, we live in times where it is not enough to disagree with someone and…
Simon Collins
Apparently many travellers now pay more attention to a hotel’s guest reviews than to its advertising. I tend to ignore…
We could be a superpower, too
Back in 2008, Kevin Rudd announced a new ‘Green Car Plan’ which in his words would ‘make the automotive industry…
Brown study
Scott Morrison may not realise it, but he has just been thrown a lifeline by the High Court that could…
Fighting fires
The richest man in Rome at the time of Julius Caesar was Marcus Licinius Crassus. Crassus made his fortune through…
Simon Collins
‘A very merry Christmas,’ sang John Lennon in 1971, ‘and a Happy New Year; let’s hope it’s a good one,…
Brown Study
STOP PRESS We have just had to stop the presses that were printing the new edition of Brown’s Political Dictionary…
Australian notes
Elites thwarting the great Aussie dream For too many Australians, the great Australian dream of home ownership becomes more elusive…
Brown study
For a while there, I thought that my credentials on climate change were pretty good. As I explained to my…
Brown study
There is an air of inevitability about the predicament facing the former sports minister Bridget McKenzie over the sports grants…
Simon Collins
If you stay single long enough most of your married friends will stop trying to match-make you and take up…
