Category: Federal
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Adelaide’s village idiot
Cory Bernardi embraces political oblivion … Mr Harbourside Mansion makes vitriolic attack on Mr Billionaire Poodle … The Rise of Trumpism: A lesson from history … Who wants to be a Roman Catholic? … In praise of a health crusader …Author Kate Grenville writes anti-perfume book … Adelaide’s village idiot Senator Cory Bernardi made headlines…
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Invasion Day
An Australia Day for 21st century Australians … Remembering the Bicentenary of 1988 … Britain’s PM Theresa May and Foreign Minister Boris Johnson in Brexit mess … Will Mrs Windsor’s Commonwealth survive? … Great Crashing Bores continued …. Revisiting Australia Day Everything seems to be changing in this super-charged world. As an example, I can’t…
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Parliament in disrepute
How parliament and MPs have fallen into utter disrepute … Whither democracy? … Britain’s decrepit ruling class has run out of puff … Brexit marks the end of the road … Festival of Dangerous Ideas … Great Crashing Bores … Seafood giants rule the oceans – and MPs In centuries past, when MPs passed laws loyal…
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Travelling man calls it a day
Travelling man Mark Ottaway calls it a day … his brother Sir Richard Ottaway keeps campaigning … apartheid Israel loses more supporters … Liberal Party plans “cash splash” in the bush to save the Nationals … Alan Jones at Festival of Dangerous Ideas … Great Crashing Bores … Mark’s career as a traveller In his…
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Turnbull’s mission to save himself
Malcolm Turnbull on rescue mission to save himself – bugger the country … Libs to recruit Noel Pearson as election candidate … Washington pursues Canberra to support its anti-China alliance … top CIA agent spills the beans … Jihadi news on Oz television … Great Crashing Bores … Turnbull attempts to reboot Interesting times in…
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Murdoch’s expanding empire
Rupert Murdoch expands his empire (again) … British PM Theresa May in Murdoch’s pocket … Aleppo and Mosul: tale of two cities … Australia drawn deeper into Middle East quicksand … Phillip Knightley’s take on war correspondents … Rupert Murdoch: local and global This week Rupert Murdoch secured full ownership of my local paper, The…
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Tribute to Phillip Knightley
Phillip Knightley, master craftsman of newspaper journalism, leaves a legacy of accuracy, independence and getting stuck into the rich and privileged … Mainstream media straining for rebirth of fascism … Why media got Austria so wrong …. Time to fight for the ABC Personal tribute to my captain Phillip George Knightley, newspaper journalist par excellence,…
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Turnbull in lock-step with Trump
Malcolm Turnbull grovels to President Trump … How the Oz-US alliance was born … Bob Carr and Kim Beazley turn US alliance into a cargo cult … Tribute to mental health campaigner Marjorie Wallace … Festival of Dangerous Ideas … Great Crashing Bores … Every time the USA moves to the right, the Australian political…
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US Presidential election special
The big hangover from Donald Trump’s White House victory … what the Trump presidency means for Americans and the world … critical differences between Trumpeteers and Brexiteers … the impact on Oz The US will remain divided The shock waves from President-elect Donald Trump’s victory are only the start of a global political, economic and…