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Neymar dives to greatness, amid global ridicule
Brazilian striker Neymar has become a global joke, a somersaulting clown, a diver and a prima donna. In a sport where being in the …
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Courts are too soft on child pornography
Today we learned the Australian Human Rights Commission has laid down its particular view of the law and came out again with a determination …
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One Perfect Day
I guess everyone has days like this from time to time. Utterly perfect days, when everything falls into place, where expectation meets denouement, and …
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TV news ain’t news.
Many years ago, an acquaintance of mine opined that the reality program, Survivor, was the best television show ever made. I didn’t share her …
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Foreign interference bills won’t stop China donations
Shhh. Don’t mention the Chinese. Malcolm may have done so once or twice but I think he got away with it. This week the …
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From Roseanne to Hanson, a real week of idiocy
Without getting in to the ghastly post-surgery details, I have been sitting and watching the world from behind closed doors with my new bladder, …
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Will this be the end of the Adolf Hitler conspiracy theories?
Adolf Hitler is dead. That’s not really news but in the news this week, a group of French forensic pathologists led by Professor Philippe …
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Bill Shorten is on the nose — especially among Labor’s grass roots
I’ll let you into a little secret. Bill Shorten is on the nose. I’m not talking about general community scepticism or the bounty of …
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Royal wedding: Why Australians will be fixed to their screens
If you grow weary of the inescapable wall-to-wall coverage of the royal wedding, just imagine what the bride and groom are going through. I …
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Denis Ryan has a win at last
Denis Ryan has had a busy time of it. On the 86-year-old former cop’s call list this morning was the Washington Post, the BBC and …