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The spy who came back from retirement: Karla’s Choice, by Nick Harkaway, reviewed. Publishing is a business. Authors are its brands and books its products. When, as sometimes happens, one of the bigger…. The Australian edition of the iconic …
Why invest in Australia? | The Spectator Australia
2 days ago · Its $23 billion ‘Future Made in Australia’ plan will employ tariffs and subsidies to encourage investments shunned by the market. It will do nothing to improve labour productivity, already at its lowest level in 60 years. Meanwhile, reckless, ideologically-driven investment in renewable energy has taken Australia from among the world’s ...
Israel or nothing | The Spectator Australia
2 days ago · Marcus Bastiaan. 14 November 2024. 7:45 AM. From the Babylonian Exile to the founding of modern Israel, Jews have wandered the world as second-class citizens. The Jewish experience is a one-sided ledger of dispossession, exile, and murder – perpetrated by their neighbours, with the permission or indifference of their state.
An open letter to senators: do not pass this MaD bill
4 days ago · 11 November 2024. 10:08 PM. Dear Senators, I write with a deep sense of urgency, sadness, and unwavering opposition to the Communications Legislation Amendment (Combatting Misinformation and Disinformation) Bill 2024 (the MaD Bill). You may not share my stance on free speech, but as an Australian patriot, deeply in love with this country and ...
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Australia’s global advocacy for the suppression of free speech
The maintenance of a democratic society requires the greatest amount of freedom of speech and the least number of restrictions as is necessary to protect the legitimate interests of Australia and its people. Yet, this attempt of the Australian government to become a global advocate for the suppression of free speech, to possibly trigger the ...
Australia’s democratic backslide | The Spectator Australia
Unfortunately, Australian democracy has been declining since the onset of the pandemic in March 2020. The most severe case of backsliding during the pandemic was the lockdown regime implemented by Premier Daniel Andrews in Victoria. In this instance all three backsliding techniques were used; the suspension of Parliament and unilateral control ...
A nation divided | The Spectator Australia
19 January 2024. 3:31 AM. As the nation ushers in a new year following the decisive defeat of the Indigenous Voice to Parliament at the ballot box, there are still those who persist in rejecting the outcome of the referendum. Undeterred, they remain steadfast in their pursuit of race-based objectives covered within the failed referendum, such ...
Books of the year, chosen by our regular reviewers
A New World, 1942-1947 (Allen Lane, £35). It puts into wider context what Fergusson, Chapman and Slim wrote about, as well as everything else after the ‘turn of the tide’, and the unfinished business when shooting stopped. Comprehensive, lucid and perceptive: 1,000 wryly and energetically written self-turning pages.
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