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Terry Barnes

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Australia is bracing itself for a chaotic general election

Australia is bracing itself for a chaotic general election
28.03.2025 10

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Is a criminal gang orchestrating anti-Semitism in Australia?

Is a criminal gang orchestrating anti-Semitism in Australia?
14.03.2025 20

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Meet Clive Palmer – Australia’s answer to Donald Trump

20.02.2025 5

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Australia has let down Sydney’s Jews

31.01.2025 3

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Australia Day has been hijacked by activists

26.01.2025 10

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Australia can’t blame foreign actors for its anti-Semitism shame

22.01.2025 6

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Why is Novak Djokovic getting so tetchy?

20.01.2025 5

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Better late? / I became a father at 56. Now I feel guilty

20.01.2025 10

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Sydney’s G-string swimwear row is nothing but hot air

17.01.2025 10

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Djokovic must forgive and forget his shoddy Covid experience in Australia

13.01.2025 4

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Beach turf wars are dividing Australia

09.01.2025 5

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Australia’s godless Christmas

As Christmas comes around again, we will discover that Australia is no longer a Christian country. According to the most recent census in 2021,...

24.12.2024 20

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Jamie Oliver shouldn’t have cowed to the Aboriginal offence-takers

The celebrity cook Jamie Oliver has a sideline as an author. Not all his books are about cooking and food: Oliver has written two children’s books...

11.11.2024 10

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Could Kevin Rudd’s Trump tweets cost him his career?

If British Labour ministers and officials find dealing with President Donald Trump 2.0 a formidable challenge, their Australian Labor cousins may...

08.11.2024 3

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Lidia Thorpe has emboldened protests against King Charles

King Charles and Queen Camilla flew to Samoa for the Commonwealth leaders’ meeting early on Wednesday, after completing their visit to Australia...

23.10.2024 3

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Ignore the ugly heckling, Charles’ Australia visit has been a triumph

If King Charles and Queen Camilla were feeling a tad apprehensive about their reception in Australia, they needn’t have worried. Already half-way...

21.10.2024 8

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Republicans won’t dampen King Charles’s visit to Australia

Australia is where, some would say, King Charles became a man. In 1966, Charles had a memorable half-year at the Timbertop bush campus of...

15.10.2024 7

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A Tasmanian judge has made Australia’s gender divide even more confusing

It’s hard to make head or tail of where Australia stands on the gender debate that has divided the West. The issue boils down to a simple question:...

01.10.2024 3

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Australia’s social media ban for children won’t work

I was born in the final years of the baby boom. To my generation of children, a social network was our mothers gossiping over the back fence or at...

11.09.2024 2

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The terror of Australia’s random coffee attack

A young mother, picnicking with friends in a Brisbane park, shouldn’t now be praying for the recovery of her nine-month-old baby son from a random...

10.09.2024 3

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Australia’s ‘right to switch off’ will be a disaster

For a great many, their job is their vocation. It’s not just what they do for a living, it’s a key part of defining who they are as a person. These...

28.08.2024 4

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Australia’s legal battle to define a ‘woman’ is not over yet

Giggle v Tickle. The name of this Australian court case sounds like an A.P. Herbert legal parody. Except that it is no parody. It is an action...

23.08.2024 10

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Melbourne is finally cracking down on the e-scooter menace

E-scooters are the bane of modern civilisation. They are the stealth bombers of our pavements. They are a silent danger to those who ride them, and...

14.08.2024 2

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Does Australia have a crocodile problem?

During the cold months of July and August, many southern Australians head north to warmer climes. A favourite destination is north Queensland, with...

10.08.2024 10

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The everyman immortality of Jack Karlson

Jack Karlson, whose death this week aged 82 has been reported in Britain and around the world, was an Australian small-time crook, prison escaper...

09.08.2024 4

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