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April 17, 2018

Lessons from the Liberals' 'Last Supper'
Demonstrating that a maudlin sense of humour has not deserted a Liberal Party run ragged by internal dissent, a participant at last week’s invitation-only fundraising dinner...
April 4, 2018

Tony Abbott is wrong about lots of things, but not immigration
Just because Tony Abbott advocates a particular course of action doesn’t mean it’s wrong. Nor should his strange decision to launch a book by the anti-immigrant campaigner Pauline Hanson preclude reasonable...
March 10, 2018

The ABC should be independent, but not above scrutiny
Let me rise in defence not of the ABC itself, nor ABC management, nor the ABC board, nor Emma Alberici in particular, but of a fundamental...
February 23, 2018

Turnbull and Trump key talking points
Malcolm Turnbull was no doubt relieved when the prime ministerial jet lifted off from Australian soil yesterday, bound for the United States and his first...
February 2, 2018

Turnbull must follow the Goldilocks rule in dealing with Trump
Here's some advice for Malcolm Turnbull ahead of his visit to Washington later this month for talks with Donald Trump...
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RT @EmmanuelMacron: To protect our democracies, we have to fight against the ever-growing virus of fake news.
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Yes, but you need to slow down at the new Barwon bridge they should've named after local Cadel Evans...🚴 https://t.co/HByO6lee8H
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Better watch out flesh-eating mosquitoes 😑 https://t.co/jAdaQ0i5V5
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Down here in Barwon Heads something else to worry about...The Age https://t.co/6vEklfP57r
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Reporters Without Borders World Press Freedom Index. Norway remains 1, Trump's United States 45 down 2, Australia r… https://t.co/4kWpaJdSGR
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Daily Beast on the Iran nuclear conundrum...https://t.co/UJejgR3zoC
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Regarding the caterwauling by the usual suspects over the despatch of Harry Harris to Seoul not Canberra, frankly w… https://t.co/UMHIZKYdCE
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RT @jaynordlinger: May I state the obvious? It is necessary. Kim Jong-un and the North Korean dictatorship are many things. "Very hono… https://t.co/Xh0PGwUrqL
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Great uncle Norman Bullen M.D. killed tending wounded Western Front. Recommended DSO for valor not awarded by the P… https://t.co/8KBxgYkX5u
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RT @EPhilippePM: Our mission now: to be sentinels watching over the values that unite us and that are far greater than the oceans th… https://t.co/6UpMeViON2