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Nick Cater
Welcome to Oz, where no one rules
With no aristocracy or ruling class, Australia is a nation of lucky bastards who make their own luck, says Nick Cater in his new book.
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| Wednesday 27 February 2013 |
Nick Cater
Putting the human rights industry on trial
Nick Cater reports from Australia, where an explosive clash over a new bill has exposed how hostile ‘human rights’ are to freedom.
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| Wednesday 7 March 2012 |
Mark Blackham
The chattering classes get their Rocks off
Sydney once violently cleared its working-class district of The Rocks – now it has turned it into a tourist hotspot.
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| Thursday 6 January 2011 |
Tim Black
Australia: flooded by gloomy reporters
For all the disaster porn about a Biblical-style flood, Queenslanders have demonstrated real resilience.
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| Tuesday 24 August 2010 |
Frank Furedi
Down Under: the danse macabre of labourism
The political quake in Australia echoes what is also occurring in Britain and across Europe: the final demise of social democracy.
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| Tuesday 24 August 2010 |
Guy Rundle
What is Julia Gillard the leader of, exactly?
Guy Rundle reports on how Australian Labor, cut off from its social roots, is now little more than a husk.
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| Tuesday 24 August 2010 |
Graham Smith
Aussies shouldn’t have to wait for a republic
Julia Gillard is right that Australia should ditch the monarchy. But it should do it now, not when the queen dies.
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| Monday 26 October 2009 |
Guy Rundle
The calm before the immigration storm?
The lack of hysteria at a new influx of refugee boats to Australia has disappointed pro- and anti-refugee groups alike.
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| Monday 12 October 2009 |
Guy Rundle
Jackson Jive: the return of Aussie racism?
Australia’s bizarre TV ‘black face’ scandal springs more from the politics of identity than old-fashioned racism.
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| Tuesday 10 February 2009 |
Guy Rundle
Burning questions about the bushfires
Guy Rundle asks if the fraying and isolation of communities in Victoria worsened the impact of the ferocious flames.
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| Wednesday 10 December 2008 |
Guy Rundle
Tear down Australia’s Great Firewall Reef
Kevin Rudd’s Labor government is pushing through a mandatory internet filtering system that rivals China’s severe online censorship.
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| Wednesday 10 December 2008 |
Danu Poyner
‘Digital Natives’ take on censorious Kevin
Rudd has been rattled by the Angry Geek brigade, which has launched an online war to defend free speech.
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| Wednesday 10 December 2008 |
Kerry Miller
Liberal tyranny on the World Wide Web
The champions of mandatory filtering are not Australia’s Christian Right but its PC, feministic, leftish elite.
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| Wednesday 16 April 2008 |
Guy Rundle
The faulty ‘2020’ vision of Australian liberals
The ‘national conversation’ organised by Kevin Rudd shows that Australian left-liberals have more faith in the state than the people.
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| Monday 17 March 2008 |
Michael Cook
Obesity in Australia
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| Tuesday 19 February 2008 |
Tara McCormack
Aboriginal apology: a sorry spectacle
Kevin Rudd’s celebrated utterance of the S-word for past wrongs against aboriginal communities was deeply paternalistic.
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| Tuesday 11 December 2007 |
Michael Cook
The pitter patter of tiny carbon footprints
It sounds like a joke from Monty Python’s University of Woolloomooloo, yet the Aussies proposing a carbon tax on newborns are serious.
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| Tuesday 27 November 2007 |
Guy Rundle
The Rudd to nowhere
What the victory of Kevin Rudd's Labor Party in Australia reveals about John Howard, the Culture Wars and the state of contemporary electoral politics.
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| Thursday 24 May 2007 |
Guy Rundle
Jindabyne: a guilt-trip from Down Under
The latest big film from Australia wants to be a deep study of the country's racial politics, but it's just a shallow take on a classic short story.
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| Thursday 15 March 2007 |
Guy Rundle
Australians are uncouth? Rack off!
Last week’s TV column by Patrick West, in which he called Australians ‘white trash’, caused an uproar Down Under. An Aus journalist responds.
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