Tag: Politics
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Do Yourself a Favour, Gladys
Tuesday, Dec. 7, 2021 I have some sympathy for former NSW premier Gladys Berejiklian, as, I think, would many people who implicitly understand that no one is perfect, least of all themselves. She did the right thing – eventually – when the NSW Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) named her as a person of interest…
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Messing About in Boats
HECTOR’S DIARY His diet of worms and other non-religious fare Bali, Jan. 4, 2017 WE have a lovely friend, a former media colleague who goes by the pen name of The Global Goddess. She has a tough life, poor thing. She’s forever flitting off from Brisbane, her home city, to go to distant places…
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Dystopian Delights
HECTOR’S DIARY His fortnightly diet of worms and other non-religious experiences Bali Nov. 9, 2016 THERE were no visibly ruffled kebayas at the Ubud Writers and Readers Festival session featuring American author Lionel Shriver on Oct. 29. No one loudly rattled their worry beads or furiously flounced out. This was in stark contrast to the…
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AMERICAN POLITICS
From the American Prospect (Monday, March 5) on Super Tuesday. A fine little aide-memoire: CORONATION TUESDAY Super Tuesday once was super. Progressives of a certain age will never forget the fun of the first edition in 1988. Conservative Democrats had dreamt up a March day of nine Southern primaries that would guarantee no “unelectable”…
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The Carr That Skittled Kevin
Appointing Bob Carr as foreign minister-designate – ahead of the New South Wales parliament formally electing him to the vacancy caused by the unexpected departure of no longer faceless man Mark Arbib – may be just what Prime Minister Julia Gillard needed as a circuit-breaker. There are certainly signs the Liberal opposition thinks so…
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