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Donald doesn’t trump Watergate
A voracious media in deep attack mode. The Democratic Party still in clinical shock, flailing about indignantly. Donald Trump on the ropes. A chaotic …
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TV news isn’t fake but too often it isn’t news
There it was yesterday. A plethora of Australian journos standing mic in hand in front of the Champs Élysées or the Eiffel Tower reporting …
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My grim new reality: life, and decisions, with cancer
I was in good nick for a bloke with high-grade non-muscle invasive bladder cancer. In fact, for the first six months after my diagnosis …
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Australian values — a user’s guide
I’ve said it many times before. Australia is the best damned country in the world with the exception of some island nations in the …
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Religion beats state every time
I used to consider myself an atheist. Now, when asked, I say I am agnostic. It is not that I have doubts but I …
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Liberal Party never so vulnerable
The Liberal Party broad church is groaning under the strain of ideological and personality conflicts. While a fully blown schism at some point before …
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Ronald Mulkearns, a criminal honoured with ill-deserved tombstone
It is a talent found only among the finest obituarists, the ability to transcend the shortcomings of an individual recently gone to God where …
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The prank that took 53 years to debunk
A week ago today, I attended the memorial for Bill Leak at the Sydney Town Hall. As I scanned the crowd, an eclectic group …
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A Rocco road to deportation
Rocco Arico has just commenced a 14 year jail sentence. Arico, a member of the Calabrian mafia, ‘Ndrangheta, and a person of note in …
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Hunters and collectives
It is fair to say the Right has been feeling the ideological pinch lately. While the fussing and feuding has been going on, the …