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  Puppet Master has lost his touch

  Bob Hawkins What we do know and the Haneef affair has been instrumental in providing us with this knowledge is that, after...

• Article

  The irony men of the West

  Bog Hawkins Have you heard the one about the Englishman, the American guy and the little Aussie bloke? For much of the...

• Article

  A trio in terror

  Bob Hawkins Good riddance, Tony Blair, may your nation’s peers one day judge you for your decisions on Iraq. And that goes...

• Article

  April 25: Anzac Fools Day

  Bob Hawkins Anzac Day, indelibly a part of Australian tradition, should be respected by all Australians. But, like Christmas Day, it should...

• Article

  Carmen going, Hanson coming …

  Bob Hawkins NOT enough can ever be said about the mistreatment of the unfortunate David Hicks. Yet our widespread and chronic amnesia...

• Politics

  Mrs Mopp had it right

  Bob Hawkins In polite company, we might resist a smug chuckle at seeing our national leader squirm. More likely , we might...

• Article

  Tales of magnanimity and irony

  Bob Hawkins What irony: these two men, Cheney and Howard, issued this “breakthrough” news on Hicks merely as a sidelight to a...

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  Coroner & Legal

  Unfit to be the lawmaker

  Bob Hawkins ON Tuesday night, on Jenny Brockie’s SBS Insight show (her topic was David Hicks), we watched in action a man...

• Politics

  Universal amnesia

  Bob Hawkins In the case of Hicks, even the impartial ABC has forgotten that, when Hicks was picked up somewhere on the...

• Politics

  The Flag

  Bob Hawkins Yet, this week, there was John Howard at it again. This man who mouths freedom of speech — the man...