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Terry Barnes

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Beach turf wars are dividing Australia

Beach turf wars are dividing Australia
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Terry Barnes

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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Terry Barnes

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 7

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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 6

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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...

01.10.2024 1

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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 1

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Terry Barnes

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....

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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Terry Barnes

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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