Aussie life
One Sunday morning in 1952, the pilot of a light aircraft flying low over the Pilbara looked down and saw…
Aussie life
Much of the advice you received as a child is now redundant. For example, don’t even think about telling an…
Aussie life
Nobody in the current federal government worked harder than Penny Wong to thaw the freeze in Sino-Australian relations caused by…
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If you want to get a rough idea of where Australians stand on a particular issue, commission a report by…
Whose balls are these?
Two weeks ago, after security protocols surrounding Mr Trump’s schedule were ramped up following his decision to bomb Iran’s nuclear…
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Last week my contacts at Latrobe Valley Law Courts sent me a digital scan of one page of the Leongatha…
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US eyes Darwin Port prise. That, in case you missed it, was the hedline on the frunt page of last…
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In the 1980s there was a popular watering hole on Sydney’s Lower North Shore called The Plum. Its popularity with…
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Of all the Gospel parables, I’ve always thought the one that would be hardest to pitch to Hollywood would be…
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I happened to be in London when the UK’s Supreme Court confirmed what many people have long suspected about women…
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Like every country whose peace and prosperity has depended, for as long as most of its population has been alive,…
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A sad legacy of Dark Emu, or rather of the embarrassing embrace of its ludicrous central thesis by our education…
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When Kermit the Frog told us in 1971 that it’s not easy being green it was meant as a plea…
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Older Speccie readers would have smiled at the vinyl revival. And some would have laughed out loud at the reappearance…
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In the UK, where I have just spent a few weeks, Christmas officially starts when you can’t enter a supermarket…
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The public shaming of elite pole vault coach Alex Parnov reminds me of the time I was sent to cover…
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As if Hollywood’s elite didn’t have enough to be worried about, the Governor they elected, and whose homelessness laws and…
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It’s hardly surprising that Doris Day’s jaunty homage to Marcus Aurelius ‘Que sera, sera’ was one of the 1956’s best-selling…
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Like many Speccie readers I was shocked by the public expressions of anti-Semitism which blighted the closing months of 2024.…
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It is customary for magazines like this to devote some of the final issue of the year to an appraisal…
We have seen this show before
Streaming services have created a new strain of déjà vu, and this is how it works. You start watching a…
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Let me be absolutely clear: when I referred to the next president of Australia’s most important military ally and economic…
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I am not worried about being outed as a recipient of Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs’ hospitality. Yes, it is true that…
The waking of the woke
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Aussie life
Despite historically owning less property than men, women have always exerted a powerful influence in the sector. Like lyre birds,…
