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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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Despite historically owning less property than men, women have always exerted a powerful influence in the sector. Like lyre birds,…
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‘When I was 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have him around,’ wrote Mark Twain,…
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At the same time you were hearing about the second attempt on Donald Trump’s life, you can be sure that…
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Cynics will say it is just a coincidence that Qantas sacked its longest-serving board member a few days after I…
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You can take the boy out of advertising, but you can’t take the copywriter out of the middle-aged man. I…
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O wad some pow’r the giftie gie us, To see oursels as ithers see us! said Robbie Burns. And nobody…
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Imagine if, instead of returning to the USA to become its third president, Thomas Jefferson had died in France on…
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Not very long ago, the propensity of some Australians to sit around watching other people do things on screens rather…
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For most of China’s 1.4 billion population, 2024 has been the Year of the Dragon, which makes it, according to…
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Being an AFL umpire does not look like a job for the thin-skinned. Given the passion of the code’s fan…
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Encomium or insult, tribute or travesty; the line between portrait and caricature can be a very fine one. Readers who…
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It is a point of principle for the residents of the smarter parts of Manhattan not to notice – and…
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As the terrible events in Bondi Junction last month reminded us, fortune doesn’t always favour the brave. Indeed, the courage…
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Almost exactly 50 years before James Cook’s first encounter with the Gweagal and Gameygal peoples on the shores of what…
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It’s been a long time since the beer garden of the iconic Oaks Hotel in Sydney’s Neutral Bay lost all…
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Which part of ‘No thanks’, many Australians may be wondering, does our Prime Minister not understand? Six months after the…
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The Banksy retrospective which has been drawing modest crowds to the basement of Sydney Town Hall in recent weeks is…
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Surprisingly, perhaps, it was only 20 years after the Union flag was first raised in Sydney Cove that white Australians…
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At time of writing, we do not know whether there is any truth to the allegations which have been made…
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Move over, Errol Flynn. It took long enough, but as of last Tuesday you are no longer Tasmania’s most popular…
