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Terry BarnesThe Spectator |
Australian states like to advertise themselves on car number plates with a catchy slogan capturing what they see as their self-image. My home state of...
In the unedifying clash of heads between billionaire Twitter/X owner, Elon Musk, and Australia’s e-safety commissioner Julie Inman Grant, there...
The Northern Territory News, Darwin’s daily paper, is known worldwide for its front pages with headlines so cleverly lurid that they outshine the...
Two unrelated acts of stabbing violence, first the random murderous rampage of a knife-wielding man in Sydney’s Bondi Junction, followed by the...
In her new book, Liz Truss says she likes Australia and Australians. The country is, she says, ‘like Britain without the hand-wringing and...
Sydney has been rocked by another stabbing rampage – just days after six people were murdered in a knife attack in the city’s Bondi Junction. A...
Bondi Junction, in Sydney’s affluent eastern suburbs, is well known to many British backpackers and tourists. Close to the city’s most famous...
While the King and the Princess of Wales both battle cancer, the business of monarchy goes on. In the realms of the Commonwealth that includes...
Captain James Cook has fallen. Not on the shore of Hawaii’s Kealakekua Bay on Valentine’s Day 1779, but in the Melbourne bohemian bayside suburb...
If you attend almost any public meeting or event in Australia these days, you’ll be greeted – some would say confronted – by a mandatory...
What do you do if you have dozens of combat helicopters you don’t want? If you’re the Australian government, you dismantle them and turn them into...
Australia’s government has been determined to ‘do a Barbados’ and ditch the British monarchy for an Australian republic with an Australian...
According to opinion polls, more Australians want to ditch the country’s ties with the British monarchy than retain it. The Labor government of...
In the days after the 7 October attack on Israel, Australia vowed to stand with Israel. It appears to have forgotten that pledge. When the United...