Category: Britain
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The vandalising of Sydney’s Domain
How Sydney’s Domain was vandalised by neo-con barbarians from corporate Australia … Royal commission hammers some banks and dusts others with a feather … Russian double agent wiped off media news lists … Israeli writer supports Gaza protests The Domain, an envelope of green space in central Sydney, is as famous as London’s Hyde Park,…
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Fred Nile’s bid to be Senator
Fred Nile’s Last Hurrah: a NSW Bunyip Aristocracy … Malcolm Turnbull renews the Culture Wars … Peter Dutton: Poster Boy as Most Hated Politician … Britain’s Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn is alive and kicking goals … Lessons in overthrowing Donald Trump … and more Fred Nile’s bid to be Senator Nile About 20 years ago…
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The Lowy family and the football stadiums
Frank Lowy family shifts from shopping centres to catering at football stadiums … ALP rodent Peter Beattie takes gold at Commonwealth Games … Oh no, not another cricket fraud …Porton Down’s Motorola salesman backs Theresa May’s Putin story … Anzac stories avoided by the media … The zillionaire Frank Lowy family, owners of the Westfield…
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Commonwealth Games hypocrisy
Commonwealth Games hypocrisy exposed … Rescue alert for English royals … Anti-China lobby erupts … Australia’s new commander-in-chief is a Liberal tool … Why public libraries desperately need a hand … Farewell to Bob Walshe, a good bloke … Judge criticises “selfie” obsessives Commonwealth Games hypocrisy exposed Let’s face it, this month’s Commonwealth Games on…
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The law laid bare
How the legal profession is being trashed Growing up in North Queensland, high on our list of Most Revered Citizens were solicitors. The legal practitioners were known far and wide as men (there were very few women in the profession in the 1950s and 60s) of conservative habits but irreproachable integrity, honesty and wisdom. Making…
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Bill Shorten and the general election
Why I can’t possibly vote for Bill Shorten As Australians draw nearer to a general election – it must held before May next year but can be called any time sooner – I am frequently asked whether I will be voting Labor. The answer is “No”. ALP leader Bill Shorten is congenitally weak-kneed; if ever…
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“Self-help” for public servants
“Self-help” books for public servants – gimme a break! Not a day seems to pass when my blood isn’t boiling and my heart rate isn’t soaring to stratospheric levels. This week I’m mad as hell, to coin a phrase from a popular TV show, about the NSW Government’s decision to spend about $600,000 to buy…
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Turnbull under threat from his own side
Malcolm Turnbull’s career being terminated by Liberals not Labor According to all the current political polls, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull is on a hiding to nothing to be defeated at the next Federal Election. However, the biggest threat to his re-election is not Labor’s Opposition Leader Bill Shorten but two fellow Liberals. They are Tony “The Mad…
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Tribute to Francis Wyndham
Francis Wyndham 1924-2017 Above my writing desk at Tweed Heads on the New South Wales-Queensland border is a photograph of writer, editor and literary mentor Francis Wyndham who has died in London aged 93. The colour photo depicts Wyndham in front of a portrait of himself painted by the late Lucian Freud, another of Wyndham’s…
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Global war fever grows
Global war fever grows – who should we attack first? Confused? I am. Citizens around the world are being told every day that they are surrounded by “enemies” and should prepare for war. The potential “enemies” cover every corner of the globe. Take your pick. Do you believe that war is overdue against North Korea, Iran, Russia,…