Showing posts with label Australia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Australia. Show all posts
Monday, September 21, 2015

DIVERSITY: Are Australians Really Racist?

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The late Padraic Pearse (PP) McGuinness was one of Australia’s most eccentric commentators and cultural warriors . At one time a column...
Friday, May 30, 2014

OPINION: Aussies doing their best to upset key neighbour

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Abbott's emphasis on the 'Anglosphere' as the focus of Oz's foreign policy confirmed suspicions that Australia saw i...
Thursday, May 29, 2014

OPINION: At least God has the Commonwealth on His side

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There was a time when the Liberal Party stood for the "forgotten people", the people who didn't have a union or truc...
Sunday, July 28, 2013

POLITICS: Australia turns its back on the desperate

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The beachside Sydney suburb of Manly is home to many an Aussie boat-owner. Indeed locals (including the abundance of Kiwi settlers) will t...
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Friday, November 25, 2011

BOOKS: Henry Reynolds on Tasmania

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Work has taken yours truly to a small island off the coast of Mexico. It's a gorgeous place known for its delightful landscape ... ....
Saturday, February 26, 2011

COMMENT: Jeremy Sammut tries to be a smartie on M&M's

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Jeremy Sammut is a research fellow at the Centre for Independent Studies . He has a PhD in Australian social and political history from M...
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COMMENT: Running riot across Sydney

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The American-owned Sydney tabloid Daily Telegraph carried an article today about a report from the NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics about rio...
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Thursday, February 24, 2011

OPINION: Reflect reality, and reject monocultural nonsense

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Don’t let politicians and other pundits lecture us on who we are, IRFAN YUSUF writes Something really tragic took place in the Sydney sub...
Saturday, February 12, 2011

COMMENT: Show us your (average) face!

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There's been alot of talk in the Herald Sun lately about that nasty thing called multiculturalism . I guess it's been a slow news p...
Monday, December 20, 2010

OPINION: Asylum-seeker shame rises for some political pundits

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Oh, to have been a fly on the wall of the United States embassy in Canberra last November. And to be sitting there watching and listening...
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Tuesday, December 07, 2010

MEDIA: WikiLeaks hysteria ...

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This post will be a running tally of updates on WikiLeaks developments. I can't guarantee it will be updated regularly. If only I had th...
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Saturday, October 23, 2010

COMMENT: Tim Soutphommasane on multiculturalism in Australia

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Tim Soutphommasane is one of the few regular opinion writers for The Australian who is not certifiably mad. He has penned an interesting c...
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Friday, February 26, 2010

COMMENT: On national security, Bolt can't see beyond his own prejudices ...

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Three Australian citizens have had their names appeared on forged passports used by Israeli security agents to carry out an assassination o...
Monday, January 25, 2010

COMMENT: Keneally on Australia Day and indigenous suffering ...

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Prominent historian Thomas Keneally is no longer reluctant to celebrate Australia Day. On Australia Day, I believe, most reasonable Aust...

COMMENT: Tony Abbott on immigration ...

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Apparently Tony Abbott is playing the race card . Or is he? AN IMMIGRATION speech by the Opposition Leader, Tony Abbott, has been criticised...
Thursday, November 12, 2009

CRIKEY: Why question defence force loyalty because of religion?

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A spokesman for the Defence forces last Friday reiterated this truism: Eligible people may join the ADF irrespective of their ethnicity, rac...
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Monday, September 21, 2009

MEDIA: Congrats to Toni ...

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It's great to learn that Australian actor Toni Collette has won an Emmy Award for Best Actress for her brilliant portrayal of a woman s...
Tuesday, September 08, 2009

OPINION: Mad monk no more: Abbott's battle cry for Liberal supremacy

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It's amazing how much spare time federal Opposition MPs have. In Tony Abbott's case, the time was put to good use by his pennin...