13 Nov2020

Public interest? ABC betrays its founding principles

Posted in Op eds

Today in The Australian

Much like the BBC, the ABC was formed, and its mission framed, on the basis of two beliefs that emerged from the trauma of the First World War.

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06 Nov2020

US election: Elusive virtues that would help nation heal these scars

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Today in The Australian

Many decades ago, in that fleeting parenthesis between the ravages of Marxism and those of the assault on Dead White Males, there raged in academia something of a great debate about Thucydides’s History of the Peloponnesian War.

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30 Oct2020

As pillars of probity, ASIC pair should know better

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Today in The Australian
As pillars of probity, ASIC pair should know better

Whether Christine Holgate, the CEO of Australia Post, acted properly in distributing designer watches to the senior executives who had secured a major contract will be determined by the inquiries that are now under way. But whether she acted wisely is another question.

 

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23 Oct2020

Islam and the West: We must strike back or soon we’ll all be Samuel Paty

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Today in The Australian

Islam and the West: We must strike back or soon we’ll all be Samuel Paty

Samuel Paty, the French schoolteacher decapitated last Friday for showing his students a caricature of the Prophet Mohammed, did not lose his life in a clash of civilisations; he lost it in a clash between civilisation and barbarism.

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16 Oct2020

Berejiklian and Andrews: A tale of two crises

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Today in The Australian

The past week has hardly been kind on our political system’s image. In NSW, Gladys Berejik­lian’s previously untarnished reputation was battered by revelations of her relationship with Daryl Maguire, a disgraced former Liberal MP.

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09 Oct2020

Covid-19 facts now clear – let’s shout them out

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Today in The Australian

Recent polls that show a majority of Australians support tough restrictions aimed at curbing the spread of COVID-19 may well reflect public perceptions of the risks associated with the disease.

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