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Sweden takes the big coronavirus risk for none of the economic gain
If we’ve learnt anything about the COVID-19 pandemic, it is that history may not repeat but it does have a habit of popping its …
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Our loony protesters are among the looniest
Around 100 assembled in Melbourne and less in Sydney. Not big numbers but what they lacked in people power they more than made up …
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Stolen valour, tin medals and tin pot generals
The actor Brian Dennehy died yesterday of heart failure due to sepsis. He was 81. The star of Rambo: First Blood, Gorky Park and …
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Hazzards of entertaining the masses, one presser at a time
Pity the lot of our public administrators in these difficult times. Governments are imperfect organs and they will make mistakes. Not, it must be …
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Coronavirus: We’re in need of objective facts, not ideology
It’s no surprise that the COVID-19 pandemic is rattling a few brains. Pity the economic commentators who have spent the last twenty years divining …
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A bad day for con artists
Yesterday was a bad day for grifters, conmen and bullshit artists. As they traipsed into court across two states, we ticked them off in …
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No leaping for joy until you leave
Yesterday I walked out the doors of the Crown Princess Mary Cancer Centre Westmead with a clean bill of health. The CT scan I …
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Uber ‘vision’ a mass of hot air
The future is upon us apparently. Excitingly, it is a future Australia or a bit of it will be part of unlike the interminable …
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Albo’s listening tour … not coming to a theatre near you
Spare a thought for the Labor Party. Or don’t. See if I care. This week, while the realisation dawned on Australians that we live …
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Election 2019: where the betting markets went wrong, and why
We now all know the result. The Coalition has won majority government and Labor has been sent packing. In the betting markets 25 favourites …