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• History

  Have we got rights for you

  Leonard Colquhoun “Words, words, words, I’m so sick of words” sang Eliza Doolittle in a much more benign setting. No written charter,...

• Politics

  Are you being served?

  Leonard Colquhoun At least, the old landowning aristocracy had to have some useful skills: administrative skills, for example, in managing their estates...

• Article

  2020 Tokens, Tracks and Tossers

  Leonard Colquhoun Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s 18th century Noble Savage has been updated to Herbert Cole Coombs’ 21st century Eco-custodian. Both are fantasies of...

• National

  Young drivers today

  Leonard Colquhoun In the SMH, it’s take ‘em off the roads until they’re 18, according to the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons,...

• Sport

  Pots ‘n’ kettles talking colour

  Leonard Colquhoun “Coolidge is a better example of evolution than either Bryan or Darrow, for he knows when not to talk, which...

• Society

  As others see us …

  Leonard Colquhoun “O wad some Pow’r the giftie gie us To see oursels as others see us !” from “To a Louse”,...

• Education

  Out of the frying pan

  Leonard Colquhoun Conservatively opting-out of the frying pan Natural Liberal supporters have effectively handed power over to the ALP, especially at the...

• Education

  Dumb and duller?

  Leonard Colquhoun Are (our) intellectuals not very bright ? Are (some) academics a bit thick, unable to handle complexity ? Are they...

• Sport

  A Tasmanian revenant

  Leonard Colquhoun IT’S BACK … Actually, it’s the talk that’s back, and it’s provoking and evoking responses ranging from the bad smell...

• Article

  Socrates recommends a re-examination

  Leonard Colquhoun “The unexamined life is not worth living”, Socrates (469 BCE — 399) is recorded by Plato1 (428 — 348) as...