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I am just amazed that we seem to be sleepwalking into a complete overthrow of our structure of government and cementing pure racism into it, yet no one seems alarmed by it and no one will do anything...
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I need your help. I am applying to the Australia Council for a literary grant and I need a few references to support my application for a handout, or, as we call it in literary circles, ‘funding’. The...
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This week marks the 50th anniversary of my election to the House of Representatives on 25 October, 1969. What has changed since then? What is better? What is worse? Do we have a more vibrant democracy...
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I am catching up on writing my award-winning treatise on practical politics. Here are three general principles about politics on which I have been musing. First, there is no doubt about the governing...
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I had just settled down in Air Canada’s luxury airliner that would whisk me across the Pacific to Vancouver and opened the Globe and Mail to find that Greta Thunberg had beaten me to it. There she...
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New York is a difficult place to get a handle on just how the place works. But despite this, every now and again you find that the basic rules that make it tick never change. I had my own experience...
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I don’t like writing in support of politicians. It only encourages them. But Scott Morrison has been subjected to such an avalanche of ignorant criticism for telephoning the Chief Commissioner of...
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The newly elected Morrison government is now just over six months old, so it is probably a good time for a trial balance to see how they are going. And a good starting point must be the top, at the...
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My problem with Christmas is that it is all ‘give, give, give.’ Whatever happened to ‘take, take, take’? Taking is a far more natural quality in the human being than giving, but somehow or other it...
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As Chairman of the Board at Thyme magazine, I am thrilled to welcome you to this year’s award of Sneer of the Year. And by Jove, didn’t we have a vigorous and close-run contest to decide who would...
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The decision that the Morrison government seems to have taken to appoint a royal commission into the bush fires is one of the most significant decisions it is likely to take. I say ‘seems to have...
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After weeks of tough negotiating and heart-wrenching self-examination, I am delighted to announce that I am embarking on a transition to carve out a progressive new role for myself. How has this come...
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There is an air of inevitability about the predicament facing the former sports minister Bridget McKenzie over the sports grants affair. All the usual portents for dismissal are lining up as if they...
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For a while there, I thought that my credentials on climate change were pretty good. As I explained to my young research assistant as he left for the latest protest rally, I am more opposed to climate...
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STOP PRESS We have just had to stop the presses that were printing the new edition of Brown’s Political Dictionary and Thesaurus. The meaning of words changes as the years roll by. We are therefore...
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Scott Morrison may not realise it, but he has just been thrown a lifeline by the High Court that could restore his tarnished reputation. He should jump at it. It was a shame and probably unfair, that...
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As is obvious from recent events, we live in times where it is not enough to disagree with someone and have a healthy debate about the issues in contention. Rather, the regular practice these days is...
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As Chairman of Apologies Inc. I am pleased to report that we have had another bumper year and that business is booming. In fact, the federal treasurer was saying just the other day during a visit he...
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If it were possible for something of value to come out of the hideous coronavirus plague, at least in Melbourne, it must be the cancelling the Formula One Grand Prix and one of the consequences that...
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As you know, the Spectator Australia Social Research Unit, operating behind heavily fortified premises in Canberra, has long been involved in research into some of the more challenging and stickier...
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