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PM Loses AAA Rating

Well, it wasn’t rocket surgery for KC to correctly predict the PM’s imminent demise. The political circus act in the … More

Abbott, Abetz & Andrews, Australian Prime Minister, Malcolm Turnbull, Mathias Cormann

Shorten Sweet

Since this yummy headline appeared over a Paddy Manning article in The Monthly on 30 July, I’ve been hoping for … More

Bill Shorten, drover's dog, Malcom Turnbull, Peter Dutton

“Germany: Memories of a Nation”

Neil MacGregor’s book is a real tour de force, to use an expression from south of the Rhine. Ex-director of … More

Marriage Malaise

Mea culpa: Professor George Williams, Dean of Law at UNSW, and KC’s legal affairs correspondent got it wrong. The High … More

Caroline Norma, High court, Marriage equality, postal survey, Professor George Williams

Marriage Blues

Not seven-year-itch, or bitch about the beloved partner. Actually that’s probably the average life span of a marriage these days? … More

ABS, Dual citizenship, High court, Marriage equality, Matthias Cormann, postal survey

Politicians & Perjury

In this post-truth Trumpian world we now all inhabit, public interest in unveiling the falsehoods, falsity, fictions, fabrications, fibs and … More

Dual citizenship, High court, Lying politicians, Malcolm Roberts, Matt Canavan, Section 44 constitution

The Smell of Pell

We all have visceral instincts and without literally smelling him, my senses signal that Cardinal George Pell, that erstwhile defender … More

Catholic church, David Shoebridge, Ellis Defence, George Pell, Royal Commission into Child Abuse

Anzac Fatigue & Iraq Redux

It’s meant to describe a feeling of consumer overload of Anzac themed TV offerings crashing in the ratings. Commercialisation is … More

Anzac commercialisation, Anzac fatigue, Iraq Redux, Iraq war, Villers-Bretonneux

School of Hard Knox

Oh dear, the motto of Knox Grammar School is ‘Virgile Agitur’, which translates as ‘Doing the Manly Thing’. As the … More

child sexual abuse, Dr Patterson, Knox Grammar School, Peter Fitzsimons, Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse

Dark Side of Aussie Sport #1

An Australian batsman is struck by a ball at the base of the skull and dies after a cricket test … More

cricket tragedy, sportsmanship

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