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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

Berlin 1936 Redux 

Recently while on assignment in Berlin your KC correspondent tip-toed in his father’s footsteps at Olympia-Stadion, the site of Hitler’s … More

"Dangerous Games: Australia at the 1936 Nazi Olympics", 1936 Berlin Olympics, Hitler, John O'Hara, Larry Writer, Wrestling

Burkini Ban

Nicely alliterative headline, but news from La Belle France is disturbing. French Mayors with local beaches have decided to ban … More

Aheda Zanetti, Burkini ban in France, Cathy Wilcox cartoon

God is Poor Exemplar

Fellow pundit Mungo McCallum, the oracle from Billinudgel, has clearly debunked the Australian Christian Lobby’s use of God’s fine words … More

Australian Christian Lobby, gay marriage, God, Marriage equality, Mungo McCallum

Revenant

(French, present participle of revenir, to return – when used in English curiously it is more dramatic, from the dead, like the … More

Afghanistan war, Anzac, Henry Reynolds, Revenant, Unnecessary Wars

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

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