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Tony’s time 22 Aug 2013 | 08:00 am
Should he fail to win the forthcoming election, Tony Abbott would be forgiven for expressing his frustration by punching a hole in the nearest wall, regardless of who happens to be standing by it. For...
In the end, everybody pays 22 Aug 2013 | 08:00 am
Character is destiny, according to Heraclitus, and that becomes increasingly clear as you get older and chart the ups and downs of your friends. Take the fate of one of my oldest acquaintances, who I...
24 August 2013 22 Aug 2013 | 08:00 am
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Diary 22 Aug 2013 | 08:00 am
It’s the Friday before the first weekend of the election campaign and one day to go before the launch of our latest Sky election show, Saturday Live. Only problem is we still don’t have a Liberal to m...
24 August 2013 22 Aug 2013 | 08:00 am
It was a great night in the Paddo RSL. It was an open-to-all public meeting to hear and question candidates in the Wentworth electorate — Christian Democrat, Palmer United, Green, Labor, and the Liber...
24 August 2013 22 Aug 2013 | 08:00 am
Some readers have said I have been uncharacteristically quiet on Tony Abbott’s paid parental leave scheme and want to know what I think about it. Well, as Kevin Rudd would say, can I tell you? Yes? I ...
Notes from America 22 Aug 2013 | 08:00 am
Back in Los Angeles after four months in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, where I directed a three hour Bonnie & Clyde for a combination of networks — Sony, A&E, Lifetime and the History Channel. No, it isn’t ...
A dry spell 22 Aug 2013 | 08:00 am
It’s a pity about Sam Strong’s production of The Crucible. Arthur Miller’s allegory of McCarthyism through the dark glass of 17th-century witch hunts in Salem, Massachusetts, is one of the masterpiece...
Fairfax under fire 22 Aug 2013 | 08:00 am
What a spectacle. A Fairfax journalist flanked by a beaming James Packer, making no secret of his loathing for her employer, and a Murdoch. Their purpose? To help launch a book on the crushing of the ...
Cover 24 August 2013 AU 22 Aug 2013 | 08:00 am
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