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The Aboriginal politician leading the charge against Australia’s disastrous referendum
Plus ça change…
I was stopped at the pub a few weeks ago by a middle-aged bloke, who identified himself to me as…
Australia’s choice: Chinese trade – or American security?
Sydney For decades, Australia has been known as ‘the lucky country’. At the end of the world geographically, we are…
The Australian way
Turning back boats saves lives
Salad days
If you enjoy reading Greg Sheridan’s Diaries in this magazine, you’ll love this book. The author, a 30-year veteran journalist…
Never say die
Winston Churchill once said of politics that it’s ‘almost as exciting as war and quite as dangerous. In war you…
Diary
A lamentable by-product of the media in the digital age is its frequent lack of good manners. Ridiculing opponents rather…
Two cheers for Bowen
Since I know Speccie readers like a bit of a shock, let me oblige: I think Chris Bowen is a…
A foreign policy realist
‘The United States does not want either side to win this war. Victory for either side would mean dreadful massacres…
Election time in Australia: Tony Abbott looks set to oust Labor’s Kevin Rudd
Sometimes only a cliché will do, especially when the subject is the Australian Labor party. Labor is holed beneath the…
World-weary world power
A year or so after the ‘liberation’ of Iraq, an unnamed senior Bush administration official (later revealed to be Karl…
