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Criticising m’learned friends has been a risky undertaking since a certain newspaper described a few beaks as ‘enemies of the people’ during the kerfuffle about Europe a few years back. In the age of populism, you are either a defender of the rule of law or an incipient fascist accusing an honest judge of being an ‘ex-Olympic fencer’.

It is therefore with some trepida...

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Steve Witkoff’s sixth visit of the year to Moscow seems to have ended again with very little to show for it. The US special envoy was in the Russian capital, accompanied by Jared Kushner, Donald Trump’s son-in-law, to meet President Vladimir Putin and present the latest version of a peace plan to end the war in Ukraine. Little is currently known about the contents of the pea...

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Should the police disclose the ethnicity and background of suspects in high-profile crimes, and how soon should they reveal this information? In the year since the Southport unrest – in which migrant hotels were attacked after online claims the attacker had been an asylum seeker – the British state has had to ask itself this question.

While the ethnicity and...

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Broaden the Church

No doubt Sussan Ley will be breathing a sigh of relief now that Canberra’s ‘killing season’ is over.

While the federal leadership remains intact, the dancefloor of the Liberal Party is still slick with blood.

In just the past month, two state Liberal leaders have been rolled faster than English Test cricketers.

Of the eight Liberal leaders currently sitt...

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From Hamburg: As China’s latest flotilla sails closer, Australians are entitled to ask their Prime Minister whose side he is on.

Has he chosen the side of the liberal democratic world that has guaranteed our security for 80 years, or the side of the authoritarian regime he has spent years desperately trying not to offend?

His response to the li...

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