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The “election campaign” is off to a great start for the Coalition, writes Alan Austin, with the establishment media managing to spin every issue in their favour.
Murdoch, Fairfax and the ABC lead Coalition campaign
THE “ELECTION...
7 February, 2013 8:09 am / 32 comments
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THE HAPPY LAND: Part 5
Was John Howard’s Australia the place admirers like Tony Abbott promote? ‘The Happy Land’ is Graham Jackson‘s satirical alternative reality. This challenging work, illustrated by Gee, consists...
5 July, 2012 3:30 pm / 1 comment
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Last year, New Zealand held a non-binding referendum on their electoral system. Lewis Holden, who was involved in the campaign to keep the current system, looks at what republicans can learn from the campaign.
Lewis Holden out on...
7 April, 2012 8:07 am / 2 comments
TweetJohn Ward says it’s time we, the people, voted on whether we go to war — not allow politicians to squander the lives and health of the Australian people.
John Ward says Gillard and Abbott shouldn't just turn up to the funerals,...
12 January, 2012 11:40 am / 4 comments
TweetCalling all babies! The Australian Republican Movement (Queensland Branch) is running a competition for future Australian heads of state. IA history editor – and ARM Queensland branch convenor – Dr Glenn Davies reports.
In New Zealand...
6 January, 2012 6:36 am / no comments
TweetThe days when new NSW cricket players got a bonus baggy green cap in the same paper bag as their new blue one should be a thing of the past after today’s Bellerive fiasco, says Shaun Newman.
Surely Cricket Australia can no longer be...
12 December, 2011 4:29 pm / no comments
TweetAustralian should bail out Greece, says Frank O’Shea, so they can continue to fight for the dream of paying no tax and retiring at 50.
Julia Gillard has been tardy in reacting to events locally and internationally.
Take Greece, for...
11 November, 2011 11:08 am / no comments
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Senior correspondent Barry Everingham takes a stroll through a royal fantasy world of Australian knighthoods and a British monarch ruling over the United States.
Royal fantasy land: a world of impossible wonders
I haven’t wandered into...
25 May, 2011 2:22 pm / 12 comments
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Wedding fever has certainly got to Australia’s fool of the year – David Flint. Barry Everingham has stopped laughing enough to explain why.
David Flint and the ACM were so completely wrong about April Fools, so why would anyone believe...
7 April, 2011 12:31 am / 3 comments