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Gerard Henderson’s Weekly Column OLD

Gerard Henderson’s Weekly Column OLDTSI Staff2020-01-09T16:06:47+11:00
Why the media pile-on is just courting trouble
25/06/2022
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ABC ombudsman unlikely to rein in staff collective
18/06/2022
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Major party preferences empowered the teals and Greens
04/06/2022
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Albo’s dramas: Dilemmas, divisions and difficulties ahead
28/05/2022
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No such thing as a safe seat for either side these days
21/05/2022
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Due process rolled in the push for a federal ICAC
14/05/2022
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Former leaders line up to betray party that made them
07/05/2022
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Teal candidates get soft run as indie against Keneally is snubbed
30/04/2022
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ABC hurts its own case for hosting leaders’ debate
23/04/2022
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How independent are candidates if they have hidden past links to the Labor Party?
16/04/2022
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PM takes a public pummelling in a media pile-on
09/04/2022
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Fierravanti-Wells’ attack on PM fails the sniff test
02/04/2022
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Federal lessons in SA’s swing to Malinauskas
25/03/2022
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Bushfires and floods, we’ve seen their like before
18/03/2022
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ABC’s concept of diversity means conservative-free
11/03/2022
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Pacifists need to get real about the threat Putin poses
04/03/2022
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Divided Liberals making a difficult task even harder
25/02/2022
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Flawed Pell claims tumble down the ABC’s memory hole
18/02/2022
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Scott Morrison may still manifest his way out of this one
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Green-left media bias on display in press club pile-on
05/02/2022
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ARM’s choice for republic looks like a model of failure
28/01/2022
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We’re no laughing stock … we’re the envy of the world
21/01/2022
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Sydney Festival boycott over Israel funding makes for strange bedfellows
14/01/2022
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ABC turns a blind eye to attack on Old Parliament House
07/01/2022
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Election 2022: ‘Mood’ will decide between two paths to power
31/12/2021
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A staggering 12 months of hubris and hapless hyperbole
23/12/2021
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Another year of ABC bias is not to be celebrated
17/12/2021
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Nothing Menzian about Holmes a Court’s political appropriation
10/12/2021
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You can take it from Menzies – divided, the Liberals will fall
26/11/2021
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Media Watch is progressively losing the plot
19/11/2021
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Texts, lies and leading questions: a matter of context
12/11/2021
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ICAC’s ‘hat-trick’ of lynchings must not be extended
05/11/2021
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Emissions schism exposes Nationals’ innate vulnerability
22/10/2021
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Royal heir chances his arm in our domestic politics
15/10/2021
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Premier Perrottet is so much more than just his faith
09/10/2021
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Beware radical left behind ‘Voices of’ independents
02/10/2021
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Subs pact makes us a target for nuke attack? Gao figure
25/09/2021
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We’re ill-served when only the rich can take on Aunty
04/09/2021
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Sorry seems to be the hardest word for the ABC
04/09/2021
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Leaders must be open to a vaccine-led recovery
04/09/2021
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Abandonment of Kabul is worse than the fall of Saigon
28/08/2021
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Campbell Newman’s LDP bid an own-goal for the conservative side
21/08/2021
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Costly errors by ABC journalists spark staff policy changes
14/08/2021
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Why does the militant left hate religion?
07/08/2021
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Odiousness comparisons in 280 characters or less
29/07/2021
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Governing can be difficult, while it’s easy to criticise
24/07/2021
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Premier Daniel Andrews could try playing ball instead of politics
15/07/2021
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Puff-piece interview shows ABC lacking critical balance
10/07/2021
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David O’Byrne fails to get the message and exits stage left
03/07/2021
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Barnaby Joyce’s return puts focus on realities of emission targets
26/06/2021
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Too many degrees of separation for everyone but Aunty
19/06/2021
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Great friends, sure, but don’t lecture us on emissions targets
12/06/2021
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Aunty’s activist journos hail a victory that never was
05/06/2021
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Two broadcasters, both alike in unaccountability
29/05/2021
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Censorship dressed as a plea for fairness in media reporting
22/05/2021
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As Coalition proves, good government adapts to challenges
15/05/2021
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Morrison has never breached division of church and state
08/05/2021
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Labor has a problem with men
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Five Eyes allies pick up the tab for NZ’s shortsighted policy
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Let’s not inflame China tensions with talk of war
17/04/2021
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Crikey, it’s another intellectually light anti-Pell rant
10/04/2021
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Who’d be a guest with an ideological host such as Aunty?
03/04/2021
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Liberal rebels spurn party that brought them to political dance
27/03/2021
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Right is wrong at the left-stacked Sydney Writers’ Festival
20/03/2021
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Journalists need to stick to the facts, not their personal beliefs
13/03/2021
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All balance lost in the crucible of a witch trial
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National cabinet: an exercise in unity minus real power
National cabinet: an exercise in unity minus real power
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Sneering critics underestimate ‘Scotty’ at their peril
13/02/2021
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ABC Four Corners’ Downfall fails to live up to the spin
06/02/2021
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Conflicted ALP struggles to regain its purpose
30/01/2021
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Gestures only serve to divide rather than lead to progress
23/01/2021
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Left selective in showing contempt, outrage
16/01/2021
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Democrats put congress in the grip of cancel culture
09/01/2021
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Uncertainty the only thing certain in 2021
02/01/2021
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Smelling a rat instead of optimism in 2020, year of identity crisis
26/12/2020
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Basic tenet of law spurned in ongoing pile-on of George Pell
19/12/2020
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Workers know a job is better than no job
12/12/2020
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Letter to ABC’s chair is well within minister’s remit
05/12/2020
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Trump ‘truth tellers’ need a refresher course in history
28/11/2020
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Disagree with other views? Shut down the platform
21/11/2020
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Labor’s climate realist knows it’s all about that base
14/11/2020
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US election 2020: People speak but pundits don’t hear
07/11/2020
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Democracy under attack from the censorious Left
31/10/2020
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Late-night tweets reveal truth about ABC’s culture
24/10/2020
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ICAC lines up a third innocent Liberal premier
17/10/2020
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Budget’s pandemic spending is the right thing to do
10/10/2020
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Amy Coney Barrett is Trump’s Supreme Court pick, not the ‘Catholic choice’
03/10/2020
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Kept in dark like mushrooms while Victoria suffers
26/09/2020
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Andrews Government in Pursuit of Liberty’s Erosion
19/09/2020
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History repeats with good governance in retreat
12/09/2020
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Truth unmasked: No, we’re not all in this together
05/09/2020
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Grim power still in symbols of past
29/08/2020
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Labor faces a divergence between its old and new base
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Coronavirus: How did Victoria get so much so wrong?
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Foolish Left no judge of economic success
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Academic freedom bows at the altar of social media
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Whitlam dismissal ‘bombshell’ is nothing more than a fizzer
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None of us is perfect, so why all this negative focus?
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Kalgoorlie 1920 is no guide to Eden-Monaro today
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ABC one-eyed on staff cuts
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Acknowledge past injustice without rewriting history
20/06/2020
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Left quickly turns on its own in Black Lives Matter debate
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No link to Australia but protesters will feel virtuous
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Hugs are nice, but industrial reform is more productive
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Coronavirus has left Australia in better shape than most
23/05/2020
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Royal commission denies George Pell legal justice
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Coronavirus: Unlike Labor, unions, Scott Morrison is for the workers
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Coronavirus: Good trade relationship with China doesn’t mean we’re kowtowing
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Malcolm Turnbull’s book omissions tell us more than the inclusions
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Morrison right to prioritise the wellbeing of the working class
18/04/2020
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George Pell: Fairness trampled by social media mob
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Coronavirus: total economic shutdown not in anyone’s interest
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ABC activists in a coronavirus battle
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Coronavirus: Listen to the medics: confused messages create chaos
21/03/2020
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Panic-buying not a sign of despair
14/03/2020
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ABC’s journos have always bitten hand that feeds
07/03/2020
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The insidious force of rising foreign interference
29/02/2020
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Sports grant saga kicks off fresh round of hyperbole
22/02/2020
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Top journos give themselves an ‘A’ for failure in election
15/02/2020
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A blow as Nationals hero walks away from cabinet
08/02/2020
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ABC’s leading journos out of touch with Australia’s key issues
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The left media’s different treatment of two very different prime ministers
25/01/2020
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Somewhere over the ditch there’s an imaginary utopia
18/01/2020
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Interview more about ‘look-at-me’ Piers Morgan than Craig Kelly
11/01/2020
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Unhappy new year but fires aren’t end of the world
04/01/2020
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On the road to Apocalypse Soon with Greta Thunberg and her disciples
27/12/2019
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Silly season not the time to convert climate sceptics
21/12/2019
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It’s all about feelings for climate change theorists on fires
14/12/2019
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60 Minutes’ problematic Chinese spy scoop is no Petrov affair
07/12/2019
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Nation’s diminishing appetite for any form of palace coup
30/11/2019
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Malcolm Turnbull just can’t let it go
23/11/2019
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Activist reporting to fore again in Pell appeal comment
16/11/2019
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The Conversation and the ABC demean public debate
09/11/2019
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Opposition realises it’s the conservative vote that counts
02/11/2019
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Andrews dabbles in foreign policy to state’s detriment
26/10/2019
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40 years on, welcome signs of a more constructive Aunty
19/10/2019
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Labor must learn to listen before it can lead
12/10/2019
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Scott Morrison and Alexander Downer tell it like it is, but is anyone listening?
05/10/2019
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Britain’s Supreme Court sides with ‘European’ progressives
28/09/2019
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It’s not a conversation when only one view is allowed
21/09/2019
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The pointscoring behind the Liu pile-on
14/09/2019
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Lesson on Christian leadership ought to begin at home
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How Cormann saved the election for the Liberal Party
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Anti-Pell media pile-on has its day despite Weinberg dissent
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Symbolic gestures do nothing to protect our children
17/08/2019
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Labor missed the boat by threatening to raise taxes
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Even the Police and 60 Minutes can be Gulled on Occasion
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Q&A kowtows to Alastair Campbell despite his historical ignorance
27/07/2019
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Elementary to leave Bob Brown’s wind farm comments unreported
20/07/2019
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Concentration camps? You can’t be serious, Tom Keneally
06/07/2019
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Claiming unwinnable election gives Libs a season of calm
29/06/2019
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Conservative injection should be easy as learning ABC
22/06/2019
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Good governance trumps rigid party agendas
15/07/2019
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Croatian Six: miscarriage of justice unredressed 40 years on
08/06/2019
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There was always a path to victory for Morrison’s Libs
01/06/2019
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Shorten has had his Chifley big-end-of-town moment
25/05/2019
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Linking rise of tolerance to Christchurch is a cheap shot
18/05/2019
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Spare us the abuse, it benefits no one
13/07/2019
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Concentration camps? You can’t be serious, Tom Keneally
06/07/2019
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Respectfully, Keating is the pot calling the kettle black
11/05/2019
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None so superior as the leftist elite
04/05/2019
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Fabric of democracy fraying under weight of the mob
27/04/2019
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We march to honour Anzacs’ unfashionable truths
20/04/2019
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ALP’s poll position far from decisive
13/04/2019
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Capacity to pay, not a tribunal, should determine wages
05/04/2019
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Turnbull’s poor 2016 poll performance haunts coalition
29/03/2019
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NZ no progressive promised land
22/03/2019
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Pell case attracts inaccurate views
16/03/2019
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It’s not uncommon for jury verdicts to be questioned
09/03/2019
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Pell’s ordeal reinforces the case for judge-only trials
02/03/2019
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Palmer unlikely to upend our stable two-party tradition
23/02/2019
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Border security policy not based on ‘racism’ and ‘hate’
16/02/2019
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ABC’s infatuation with independents is pretty pointless
09/02/2019
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Aunty’s built-in bias is plain when it fails to question its favourites too closely
02/02/2019
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This nation of immigrants rightly cherishes its rich past
26/01/2019
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Our only instability is an infatuation with independents
19/01/2019
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Nasties, yes, but we’ve never been fertile soil for Nazis
12/01/2019
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Discussion, conversation replaced by the shrill voice of accusation
05/01/2019
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No respite from dog of a year
29/12/2018
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Coalition could benefit from ‘doing the hypocrisies’
22/12/2018
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Wilson case offers a study in contrasting coverage
15/12/2018
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Jerusalem is not out of our reach
08/12/2018
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We can learn a lot about attribution bias from Malcolm Turnbull
01/12/2018
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Last thing the nation needs is an unnecessary inquisition
24/11/2018
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Let our leaders speak the truth
17/11/2018
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Leftists ignorant in their assault on Douglas Haig for his war service
10/11/2018
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Turnbull joins miserable ghosts haunting living rooms
03/11/2018
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Biggest swing? In Wills, Cleary outpolled Wentworth’s Phelps
27/10/2018
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Aunty offers rising son a platform for ‘crazy’ party claims
20/10/2018
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After Hewson in Wentworth, will Turnbull turn against Liberals?
13/10/2018
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‘Miserable ghosts’: How do you solve a problem like an ex-PM?
06/10/2018
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Tear down ABC’s silos of groupthink
29/09/2018
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ABC tries spicing up a stew that lacks basic ingredients
22/09/2018
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Turnbull stirs Liberal turmoil with advice on Dutton
15/09/2018
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Menzies got the ball rolling on women in parliament
08/09/2018
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Turnbull, not News nor 2GB, was the author of his demise
01/09/2018
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With a true Liberal back at the helm, next step is unity
25/08/2018
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Rhiannon says farewell but not ‘I’m sorry’
18/08/2018
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Sky News ban: politics of racism defy a black and white interpretation
11/08/2018
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Tell Lenin’s victims that wearing his T-shirt is a bit of fun
04/08/2018
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Contrary opinions need a public voice for society to flourish
28/07/2018
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At ABC, only one side of story counts
21/07/2018
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Labor’s latest rodent, Mark Latham, joins distinguished company
14/07/2018
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Upholding law doesn’t make Dutton a fascist
07/07/2018
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Albanese, Butler better on business than Shorten, Swan
30/06/2018
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ABC presenters never express opinions? Let’s fact-check that
23/06/2018
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Hewett story reaction shows the left protect its own regardless of the obscenities
16/06/2018
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ABC’s problem with political diversity goes a long way back
09/06/2018
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Liberal tension a pointless distraction
02/06/2018
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Peter Ridd’s sea of troubles
28/05/2018
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Sorry, no apology for Bean’s past faults
21/05/2018
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Don’t bite government hand that feeds you, Aunty
14/05/2018
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ABC plays host to guests of a left-liberal perspective
07/05/2018
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Washington’s Canberra mission is in capable hands with James Carouso
30/04/2018
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Anzac Day: field marshal rank the wrong way to honour General John Monash and WWI dead
23/04/2018
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Turnbull needs shock, awe and Abbott to reunite party
16/04/2018
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ABC journalists treat child sexual assault as a Catholic problem
07/04/2018
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Nick McKim Would Be in Jail if Australia Were A Fascist State
31/03/2018
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Shorten’s funding vow to Catholics is clever politics
24/03/2018
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Trump’s disruption works to Australia’s advantage
17/03/2018
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Hodgman’s Tasmania win offers lessons for Turnbull
10/03/2018
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Ainsley Gotto was John Gorton’s secretary, not his mistress
03/03/2018
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ABC’s moralising choir hits a jarring note
24/02/2018
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Anti-Catholic news report finds church owns much property
17/02/2018
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ABC’s case against Kevin Lyons rests entirely on hearsay
10/02/2018
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Record shows ICAC’s pointless blows, so why emulate it at a federal level?
03/02/2018
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Refugees policy: We play bad cop so NZ can afford to be virtuous
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Australia Day debate shouldn’t overshadow child abuse
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Anti-Trump forces willing to adopt old Soviet methods to topple him
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Facts give way to mockery in media’s reporting of politics
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Left’s year of Trump-phobia and other insults
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Bennelong, New England will mean little by next election
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Abuse royal commission: Catholic institutions guilty but so are others
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Profumo affair offers lessons best heeded by Sam Dastyari
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Keating’s ‘woeful coward’ slur against Menzies ignores historical truths
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Foreign policy white paper: do business with China, stay close to US
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Same-sex marriage: Thanks to Abbott, the people have had their say on marriage
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Dual citizenship decision is brutalist, but the High Court isn’t
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Beersheba serves an important reminder
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Workers can unite but not with same urgency as in Marx’s time
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Left using conspiracies to fuel obsession with Whitlam dismissal
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Fabricated claims of racism in Australia give left a drum to beat
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Kezelman saga timely reminder for McClennan royal commission
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Same-sex marriage: Yes vote a plunge into the great unknown
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Labor faithful never waver in their affection for Lionel Murphy
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Turnbull moves toward Abbott policies in quest for success
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Imagine Kim Jong’s-un’s power if CND and NDP had succeeded
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Sanctity of confessional early test of religious freedom
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Minchin’s Rant Counter-Productive to Yes Case on Same-Sex Marriage
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All the News That Fits the Narrative at Their ABC
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Imagine Kim Jong’s-un’s Power if CND and NDP Had Succeeded
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Mike Seccombe Errs in Finding Catholics at Heart of NSW Liberals Dispute
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MPs Should Know Their Citizenship Status Entering Parliament
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Two Labor Figures, but Only One Gets the Numbers Right
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Some Free Advice, Think Tank Agony Aunts: Put a Sock In It
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Robert Menzies’ success was not based on ‘progressive’ policies
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Media Watch: here’s another lesson from the ABC’s bully pulpit
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Left-liberals need to explain to public why they are such losers
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Left incapable of acknowledging Islamist terrorist threat
Left incapable of acknowledging Islamist terrorist threat
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Christians are under assault
Christians are under assault
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Whatever Turnbull says, Menzies was more than small-l liberalism
Whatever Turnbull says, Menzies was more than small-l liberalism
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Conservative values, and money, unsafe in liberal academic hands
Conservative values, and money, unsafe in liberal academic hands
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Coalition’s multicultural statement shows importance of mixing
Coalition’s multicultural statement shows importance of mixing
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Australia goes from being power rich to facing an energy crisis
Australia goes from being power rich to facing an energy crisis
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Many Australians resent the ABC’s daily leftist sermons
Many Australians resent the ABC’s daily leftist sermons
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Hitler, Mussolini … Trump? No, the Donald isn’t a dictator
Hitler, Mussolini … Trump? No, the Donald isn’t a dictator
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Netanyahu shows failings of Hawke-Rudd call for Palestinian state
Netanyahu shows failings of Hawke-Rudd call for Palestinian state
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Indigenous school attendance could be the most important gap
Indigenous school attendance could be the most important gap
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Bernardi likely to be a bit player
Bernardi likely to be a bit player
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Child abuse royal commission: don’t just target Catholic Church
Child abuse royal commission: don’t just target Catholic Church
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Madonna, Streep, Fonda: leaders of opposition to Donald Trump?
Madonna, Streep, Fonda: leaders of opposition to Donald Trump?
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Fake news is new, but Left shows fabricated reports are not
Fake news is new, but Left shows fabricated reports are not
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Truths need to be told about Australian bushranger Ned Kelly
Truths need to be told about Australian bushranger Ned Kelly
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Block to Israeli-Palestinian peace remains the same as in 1967
Block to Israeli-Palestinian peace remains the same as in 1967
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2016: The year that was, in all its wildly inaccurate prophecies
2016: The year that was, in all its wildly inaccurate prophecies
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Right empowered as terrorists exploit EU’s immigration policies
Right empowered as terrorists exploit EU’s immigration policies
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No, there won’t be a republic in Australia anytime soon
No, there won’t be a republic in Australia anytime soon
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Truth, post-truth and nothing like the whole truth
Truth, post-truth and nothing like the whole truth
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Castro death reaction shows Left’s hypocrisy, Trump can be right
Castro death reaction shows Left’s hypocrisy, Trump can be right
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Switzer alone cannot redress political imbalance in the ABC, USSC
Switzer alone cannot redress political imbalance in the ABC, USSC
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Malcolm Fraser’s Lebanese concession became a disaster
Malcolm Fraser’s Lebanese concession became a disaster
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Keating, Wong comments on US alliance are stirring the possum
Keating, Wong comments on US alliance are stirring the possum
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A condescending media misread middle America
A condescending media misread middle America
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Case against Cardinal George Pell falls down for lack of evidence
Case against Cardinal George Pell falls down for lack of evidence
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No place in political debate for the Queen’s representatives
No place in political debate for the Queen’s representatives
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Attacks on free speech continue while legislation enables them
Attacks on free speech continue while legislation enables them
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Offended Left claims exclusive right to freedom of expression
Offended Left claims exclusive right to freedom of expression
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Bad old-fashioned anti-Catholic sectarianism colours accounts
Bad old-fashioned anti-Catholic sectarianism colours accounts
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Turnbull can survive political instability by being decisive
Turnbull can survive political instability by being decisive
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Q&A shows why same-sex marriage opponents need campaign funding
Q&A shows why same-sex marriage opponents need campaign funding
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What’s deplorable is leftist disdain for the ‘ill-educated’
What’s deplorable is leftist disdain for the ‘ill-educated’
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ABC cannot deny the reprehensible actions of Richard Neville
ABC cannot deny the reprehensible actions of Richard Neville
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Mass murderer Mao Zedong undeserving of any commemoration
Mass murderer Mao Zedong undeserving of any commemoration
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Freedom of speech at risk from advocates of existing section 18C
Freedom of speech at risk from advocates of existing section 18C
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Vietnam war: Australia’s role misrepresented on ABC, Sky News
Vietnam war: Australia’s role misrepresented on ABC, Sky News
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Hindsight has not cleared the vision of an atrocity
Hindsight has not cleared the vision of an atrocity
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Liberal Party does best when conservative forces are kept close
Liberal Party does best when conservative forces are kept close
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Divided Greens can’t see the common good for the trees
Divided Greens can’t see the common good for the trees
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Discussing Europe’s failed multiculturalism is not Islamophobic
Discussing Europe’s failed multiculturalism is not Islamophobic
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Trump, Hanson and Kruger’s views don’t deserve ridicule
Trump, Hanson and Kruger’s views don’t deserve ridicule
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Bernardi can help Turnbull guard Coalition against Hanson
Bernardi can help Turnbull guard Coalition against Hanson
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Malcolm Turnbull must connect with conservative base, not Mao
Malcolm Turnbull must connect with conservative base, not Mao
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Black and white and Rudd all over
Black and white and Rudd all over
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The public has every right to a same-sex marriage plebiscite
The public has every right to a same-sex marriage plebiscite
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New blood will revive Coalition
New blood will revive Coalition
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Other religions do not preach hate like radical Islam
Other religions do not preach hate like radical Islam
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Alberici, West, Green and Birmingham follow Obama on Islam
Alberici, West, Green and Birmingham follow Obama on Islam
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Anti-Catholic tax activists blind to good churches do for free
Anti-Catholic tax activists blind to good churches do for free
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Guys, it’s an exciting time to be an offence-taker
Guys, it’s an exciting time to be an offence-taker
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Federal election 2016: Media should just let Turnbull be
Federal election 2016: Media should just let Turnbull be
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Sex abuse royal commission fails test of fairness
Sex abuse royal commission fails test of fairness
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Federal election 2016: conservatives show disunity doesn’t mean death
Federal election 2016: conservatives show disunity doesn’t mean death
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US freedom of speech harmed as conservative voices are excluded
US freedom of speech harmed as conservative voices are excluded
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Flash of credentials can’t disguise self-interest in taxes letter
Flash of credentials can’t disguise self-interest in taxes letter
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Unsubstantiated sex claims ruin the life’s work of good men
Unsubstantiated sex claims ruin the life’s work of good men
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Little to celebrate about Ireland’s Easter Rising 100 years on
Little to celebrate about Ireland’s Easter Rising 100 years on
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Terror represents an ‘irritant’ at our collective peril
Terror represents an ‘irritant’ at our collective peril
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Liberals flirting with Greens send out a mixed message
Liberals flirting with Greens send out a mixed message
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Pell’s ‘implausible’ testimony not met with facts to the contrary
Pell’s ‘implausible’ testimony not met with facts to the contrary
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Tension in the Coalition room as Liberals celebrate Howard’s win
Tension in the Coalition room as Liberals celebrate Howard’s win
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Cardinal George Pell’s enemies sneer as police leak smears
Cardinal George Pell’s enemies sneer as police leak smears
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Tim Minchin’s abusive song fires up Cardinal George Pell haters
Tim Minchin’s abusive song fires up Cardinal George Pell haters
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Comedic stunts aside, soft borders cost lives
Comedic stunts aside, soft borders cost lives
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Double dissolution could be Turnbull’s ticket to corral senators
Double dissolution could be Turnbull’s ticket to corral senators
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A referendum would hurt republicans
A referendum would hurt republicans
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Liberals have lessons to learn from the Robert Menzies era
Liberals have lessons to learn from the Robert Menzies era
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Kerry O’Brien, Germany’s ZDF avoid responsibility in journalism
Kerry O’Brien, Germany’s ZDF avoid responsibility in journalism
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Allan Ashbolt’s ghost still haunts conservative-free ABC
Allan Ashbolt’s ghost still haunts conservative-free ABC
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George Pell: a scapegoat at the altar of progressivism
George Pell: a scapegoat at the altar of progressivism
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2015: failed soothsaying, gross hyperbole and rank trivia
2015: failed soothsaying, gross hyperbole and rank trivia
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Muddled thinking makes Australia less resilient in face of terror
Muddled thinking makes Australia less resilient in face of terror
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Malcolm Turnbull needs to focus on Coalition unity
Malcolm Turnbull needs to focus on Coalition unity
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George Pell should be given a fair go at royal commission
George Pell should be given a fair go at royal commission
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Some journalists think Tony Abbott should be seen and not heard
Some journalists think Tony Abbott should be seen and not heard
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Paris attacks: Apologists lose plot on Islamist threat
Paris attacks: Apologists lose plot on Islamist threat
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Today it’s harder to maintain rage over the Whitlam dismissal
Today it’s harder to maintain rage over the Whitlam dismissal
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Dismissal a temporary ­difficulty in our parliamentary system
Dismissal a temporary ­difficulty in our parliamentary system
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Anti-coal false prophets lack solutions for world’s poor
Anti-coal false prophets lack solutions for world’s poor
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With our way of life under threat, focus on what unites us
With our way of life under threat, focus on what unites us
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Children in detention: doctors throw switch to moral outrage
Children in detention: doctors throw switch to moral outrage
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Ex-PM Tony Abbott’s ‘Team Australia’ makes a lot of sens
Ex-PM Tony Abbott’s ‘Team Australia’ makes a lot of sens
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Partisan ABC allows attacks on non-feral Tony Abbott
Partisan ABC allows attacks on non-feral Tony Abbott
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Mal Brough speaks on Senate voting as smaller parties fall in Canning
Mal Brough speaks on Senate voting as smaller parties fall in Canning
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Tony Abbott’s accusations against the media have some merit
Tony Abbott’s accusations against the media have some merit
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Christians should be given special consideration in refugee plan
Christians should be given special consideration in refugee plan
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Christians targeted by sneering secularists at The Saturday Paper
Christians targeted by sneering secularists at The Saturday Paper
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ABC under Mark Scott facilitates decline in media standards
ABC under Mark Scott facilitates decline in media standards
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How Menzies would have dealt with conscience votes is guesswork
How Menzies would have dealt with conscience votes is guesswork
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Plebiscite on same-sex marriage is a reasonable compromise
Plebiscite on same-sex marriage is a reasonable compromise
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ABC’s leftist staff monoculture stifles debate of ideas
ABC’s leftist staff monoculture stifles debate of ideas
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My friendship with the charismatic, unusual Bob Santamaria
My friendship with the charismatic, unusual Bob Santamaria
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The Queen’s Nazi salute was just the act of a mimic
The Queen’s Nazi salute was just the act of a mimic
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On criticism and censorship
On criticism and censorship
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Academics inflate nuclear war risk yet deride Islamist threat
Academics inflate nuclear war risk yet deride Islamist threat
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Zaky Mallah Q&A affair another case of ABC leftist groupthink
Zaky Mallah Q&A affair another case of ABC leftist groupthink
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The Pope can have his climate change say, but …
The Pope can have his climate change say, but …
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The Pope can have his climate change say, but …
The Pope can have his climate change say, but …
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Wanted dead or alive: confirmed deductions in biographies
Wanted dead or alive: confirmed deductions in biographies
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Left-leaning Vanstone starting to emulate a certain former Liberal PM
Left-leaning Vanstone starting to emulate a certain former Liberal PM
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Broad support of indigenous groups needed for referendum success
Broad support of indigenous groups needed for referendum success
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Persecutors of Cardinal George Pell wilfully ignore the history
Persecutors of Cardinal George Pell wilfully ignore the history
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1970s Lebanese Commission led to an immigration debacle
1970s Lebanese Commission led to an immigration debacle
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Little respect shown by aggressive ABC interviewers
Little respect shown by aggressive ABC interviewers
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SBS’s Struggle Street a condescending picture of poverty
SBS’s Struggle Street a condescending picture of poverty
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Scott McIntyre in poor company as Left loses World War I again
Scott McIntyre in poor company as Left loses World War I again
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Stalin-lovers Jessie Street, the Webbs unworthy heroes for Shorten ALP
Stalin-lovers Jessie Street, the Webbs unworthy heroes for Shorten ALP
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Time to look at contemporary attitudes to our role in Vietnam
Time to look at contemporary attitudes to our role in Vietnam
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Home-grown fascists are a mere blip on the radar
Home-grown fascists are a mere blip on the radar
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Left’s imagination runs rampant over Abbott and Fraser
Left’s imagination runs rampant over Abbott and Fraser
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Malcolm Fraser’s unreliable memoir makes legacy even more unclear
Malcolm Fraser’s unreliable memoir makes legacy even more unclear
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Labor-Green opposition blocks essential infrastructure in NSW
Labor-Green opposition blocks essential infrastructure in NSW
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Radical tolerance for the Left but intolerance towards conservatives
Radical tolerance for the Left but intolerance towards conservatives
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ABC guilty of double standard in coverage of child sex abuse
ABC guilty of double standard in coverage of child sex abuse
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Left’s tolerance of Islamists exposes hostility to Western values
Left’s tolerance of Islamists exposes hostility to Western values
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ABC sees David Hicks, who fought with Taliban, as worthy of an apology
ABC sees David Hicks, who fought with Taliban, as worthy of an apology
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We need to have conversation about economic reform
We need to have conversation about economic reform
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Senate shortfall obstructs economic reform for Coalition
Senate shortfall obstructs economic reform for Coalition
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There’s no need for such pessimism — our democracy is a world-beater
There’s no need for such pessimism — our democracy is a world-beater
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What’s in a name? For the Liberal Party, often a big disadvantage
What’s in a name? For the Liberal Party, often a big disadvantage
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Intelligentsia ignores ugly new phase in French anti-Semitism
Intelligentsia ignores ugly new phase in French anti-Semitism
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ABC must confront the inconvenient truth about Islamic terrorism
ABC must confront the inconvenient truth about Islamic terrorism
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Sydney siege: If it looks, smells and feels like terrorism and the perpetrator says so, then it is
Sydney siege: If it looks, smells and feels like terrorism and the perpetrator says so, then it is
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ABC’s bias against the Abbott government has its parallel in Britain
ABC’s bias against the Abbott government has its parallel in Britain
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Alienated Bryant’s Rise and Fall misses the point that world leaders respect, admire Abbott
Alienated Bryant’s Rise and Fall misses the point that world leaders respect, admire Abbott
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Constant negotiation is key to Senate victory
Constant negotiation is key to Senate victory
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Unlike his Cairo speech, in Brisbane Barack Obama offended his hosts
Unlike his Cairo speech, in Brisbane Barack Obama offended his hosts
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ANU’s alarmist Hugh White gets it wrong each time on US-China ‘tensions’
ANU’s alarmist Hugh White gets it wrong each time on US-China ‘tensions’
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Libertarians like Leyonhjelm naively dismiss terrorists as ‘dickheads’
Libertarians like Leyonhjelm naively dismiss terrorists as ‘dickheads’
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ABC’s Scott reckless to take on his only friend on the Coalition frontbench
ABC’s Scott reckless to take on his only friend on the Coalition frontbench
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John Kerr acted more honourably than Whitlam and Fraser in 1975
John Kerr acted more honourably than Whitlam and Fraser in 1975
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Sorry, Mike, Nazism was a secular movement — unlike today’s Islamic State
Sorry, Mike, Nazism was a secular movement — unlike today’s Islamic State
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Let’s celebrate the party as we fondly remember Menzies, the father of the Liberals
Let’s celebrate the party as we fondly remember Menzies, the father of the Liberals
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Minority groups should engage in self-reflection, not victim mentality
Minority groups should engage in self-reflection, not victim mentality
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ABC must present both sides of the debate on terrorism
ABC must present both sides of the debate on terrorism
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Commentators need terror guides for dummies
Commentators need terror guides for dummies
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Not much rotten in the state of NSW that PR won’t exaggerate
Not much rotten in the state of NSW that PR won’t exaggerate
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It’s the lefties and their love-ins — not Abbott — who oppose freedom
It’s the lefties and their love-ins — not Abbott — who oppose freedom
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Human rights chief shows little appreciation for her brief as an impartial inquisitor
Human rights chief shows little appreciation for her brief as an impartial inquisitor
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War pact between the Nazis and Stalin left out of history
War pact between the Nazis and Stalin left out of history
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ABC preys on conservative Catholics over church response to sexual abuse
ABC preys on conservative Catholics over church response to sexual abuse
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On the issue of terrorism, the libertarian lobby has been cosying up to the Green-Left
On the issue of terrorism, the libertarian lobby has been cosying up to the Green-Left
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Why did editors take so long?
Why did editors take so long?
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Historically, action taken by our politicians and military forces in Great War stands up well
Historically, action taken by our politicians and military forces in Great War stands up well
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An unfair focus on Gaza toll
An unfair focus on Gaza toll
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Palmer and Fraser need to think of the real victims before they employ hyperbole
Palmer and Fraser need to think of the real victims before they employ hyperbole
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Putting meat on the bones of a 1957 agreement
Putting meat on the bones of a 1957 agreement
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Someone tell Friends of the ABC it’s not run by board
Someone tell Friends of the ABC it’s not run by board
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Who’s the narcissist now?
Who’s the narcissist now?
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Dangerous ideas — Fraser’s Lebanon Concession, for example — should be handled with care
Dangerous ideas — Fraser’s Lebanon Concession, for example — should be handled with care
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‘Occupied’ East Jerusalem stunt confuses fact and fiction
‘Occupied’ East Jerusalem stunt confuses fact and fiction
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PM cops all the news that’s fit to print, and all of the spite that isn’t
PM cops all the news that’s fit to print, and all of the spite that isn’t
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Strong relations without fawning: a lesson for the campus Left
Strong relations without fawning: a lesson for the campus Left
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Populist attacks can make Abbott stronger
Populist attacks can make Abbott stronger
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No Right to make your case
No Right to make your case
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Fraser’s dangerous delusions on US alliance will find favour with no one but the Left
Fraser’s dangerous delusions on US alliance will find favour with no one but the Left
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Shock headlines ruin lives and reputations
Shock headlines ruin lives and reputations
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Deficit levy right idea for a difficult problem
Deficit levy right idea for a difficult problem
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Parliament will be interesting enough without the myths
Parliament will be interesting enough without the myths
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Chasers have more power than Mark Scott
Chasers have more power than Mark Scott
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A great read with deeply troubling insights into the mind of Carr and his Israel-lobby obsession
A great read with deeply troubling insights into the mind of Carr and his Israel-lobby obsession
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Reality becoming a boring, distorted place as inner-city Left displaces the conservatives