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Grace Tame to Step Down from Charity

Grace Tame to Step Down from Charity

We live in an Age of Unreason. Characteristic of such an age is the near-universal trading of victimhood-as-currency. The Cult of the Victim fosters all manner of irrational ideas. As the great Australian journalist Jack Marx wrote, years ago, should there come a point where the mouths of victims’ families

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The Coming Populist Revolt in Australia

The Coming Populist Revolt in Australia

Gary Johns Gary Johns is Chairman of Close the Gap Research Populism occurs when the masses revolt against the elites’ view of the world. Elite opinion does not often deal directly with popular opinion, that is, with the people who have to pay for elite opinion. When elites get it

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Polls Are All Good News for Dutton

Polls Are All Good News for Dutton

As I wrote recently, the small target strategy has been the prevailing wisdom in Australian politics since 1993. That was the year John Hewson launched his Fightback! campaign, a year out from an election. Hewson was perhaps the last politician to try a degree of honesty: he told everyone, in

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