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The Corby circus keeps rolling on
Let’s face it, it’s been a tough week. What we need now is an issue that will unify the nation. Happily we have one …
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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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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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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 …
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My narcissism is better than yours
Look, we all do it. We hurl about terms like psychopath and narcissist with reckless abandon and almost always without fully understanding the nature …
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Stop laughing, this is Islam
I know there are a number of Muslim comedians both in Australia and around the world. Good luck to them because if ever a …
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Politicians sucking hard in our living rooms
The week in Australian federal politics was headlined by the triumphant return of ‘Bad’ Malcolm Turnbull. Australians had become accustomed to the pinkie-extended punctilios …
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Donald Trump’s Mexico wall: Here’s a little context …
The Donald said he was going to do it and now he is. The Great Wall of the Rio Grande, the Trump Wall will …
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Men’s health need not be an oxymoron
Back in August, I announced my cancer diagnosis. Last week an examination by cystoscope showed no ghastly tumour had returned to my bladder. It’s …
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Sugar, sugar everywhere so let’s all have a drink
The long, soul-destroying national debate has begun. Should the Commonwealth find yet another way of pick-pocketing the citizenry by taxing sugar? Predictably the Greens …