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Diary Australia 25 August 2012

25 August 2012

I fly to China with Cathay Pacific, the largest shareholder of which is the British based Swire Group. The Swire Group and Jardine Matheson have survived for around 200 years… Read more

Diary

19 November 2011

The alarm wakes me, my wife and the dog at 4 a.m. I’m beginning my tortuous journey from Adelaide to New York, but not with Qantas. I’m a brand loyalist… Read more

Our messy war

16 October 2010

Now that the Prime Minister has visited Afghanistan, the question is: how do we get Australian troops out? The past week’s ugly spat between Julia Gillard and Tony Abbott over… Read more

Poll numbers, not policies, have become the only measure of government

24 July 2010

Labor’s veneration of polling figures has exposed its lack of principles, but Australians aren’t convinced the Coalition would do a better job, argues Alexander Downer The Australian Labor Party goes… Read more

Meet the real Kevin Rudd

17 June 2010

The Kevin Rudd phenomenon is one of the more extraordinary to have swept through Australian politics over the past two generations. For Kevin Rudd to have become prime minister of… Read more