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• Politics

  Targa: Nick’s off!

  I AM writing in response to your article published on oldtt.pixelkey.biz written by Nick Evers and entitled “Get Targa off the Teat....

• Politics

  Get Targa off the teat

  I think Bob Annells could reasonably be described as a very distinguished and successful Tasmanian. While he no longer lives full time...

• National

  Puppy love

  GREG Sheridan, the foreign editor of The Australian, is an experienced and knowledgeable opinion writer on various aspects of Australian foreign policy...

• National

  Gormless

  Crikey.com hunted through the Cole Inquiry transcripts seeking to determine “… how many times the memories of our government ministers, officials and...

• Politics

  Hamlet and Costello

  VISITORS to this site may recall an essay I wrote a few weeks ago on Peter Costello. It was a critical piece...

• National

  Iraq: the great folly

  DURING the first six decades of her life, my mother — who died some years ago, in her early nineties — led...

• Politics

  Twouble in Tweeland

  THIS contribution to these august columns is written in such a way as to protect the integrity of those not named herein,...

• Arts

  My favourite books

  “Rounding the corner and passing in turn the fire-bell, the Rechabite’s Hall and the flour mill, hearse and coach, resembling two black...

• National

  Labor’s only way is up

  I voted Labor from the time I was eligible to vote, in the late 1950s, until 1972. Since 1972 I have voted...

• National

  He’s no PM

  NEARLY twenty years ago I had cause — in an official capacity and accompanied by two colleagues — to visit a lawyer...