George Brandis
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- Aug 30, 2026
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How Ben Roberts-Smith could help Hanson bring down a future Liberal leader (opens the original)
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You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. According to an opinion survey published by this masthead last week, other than Pauline Hanson herself, the Australian One Nation supporters most admire is Ben Roberts-Smith. There is a lot to admire. As a soldier, Roberts-Smith showed almost super-human personal courage in close engagements with Taliban forces in Afghanistan, which saved the lives of several Australian soldiers at immense risk to
While Liberals shoot their messenger, Labor squanders its chance for brave reform (opens the original)
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You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. It was predictable that Andrew Bragg’s freewheeling speech to the National Press Club last Wednesday would annoy some of his colleagues. Ranging far beyond his portfolio, Bragg opined on a range of important issues, expressing personal views that had not been adopted by shadow cabinet. His critics lamented his lack of message discipline – although nothing he said was nearly so off-message as Tony
Tony Abbott recalls a whiter Australia than I do. Menzies rejected his version, as do many Liberals (opens the original)
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You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. When I was growing up there in the 1960s, Petersham was not the neighbourhood of well-to-do Greens and Bollinger socialists it has since become. It was then an unfashionable suburb, relatively poor, much favoured by migrants who had fled war-ravaged Europe to seek a new life in Australia. Many of the families on my street were from Greece and Italy. Our next-door neighbours were Chinese. At the lo
When Hanson’s supporters examine all her policies, what they find could ‘horrify’ them (opens the original)
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You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. You have probably heard of “the Overton window”. It’s one of those faux-academic jargon phrases with which our language is increasingly cluttered. The eponymous window – named after the American social theorist Joseph Overton, who came up with the metaphor – defines the acceptable boundaries of public discussion. When those boundaries are exceeded, commonly by an iconoclastic politician who says s
Angus Taylor must take the fight up to One Nation – or look weak (opens the original)
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You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. I understand the tactic of not attacking One Nation because I used to advocate it myself. Not because I ever thought the Liberal Party should be soft on Pauline Hanson but because, like former Liberal prime minister John Howard, I accepted the argument that attacking her would just give her oxygen. It was a sensible strategy at a time when voting intention for One Nation was sitting at about 6 per
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