The cork may be an endangered species in Australian wine bottles, but Americans just can't seem to get used to screw tops. The idea that Islamic butchers might want to blow people up is, in some quarters, even harder to assimilate
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Our US correspondent rides a bicycle without helmet and lives to tell. Despite a reverence for regulation that would gladden any Australian bureaucrat, Californians still know how to do a cost-benefit analysis
The Golden State's economy is in a tailspin, but a sunny cheerfulness continues to animate my new neighbours. Mine, too, as news from home confirms that demise of Julia Gillard's petulant and incompetent government draws closer
With a song in his heart and a borrowed Volvo, our newly arrived US correspondent takes in the wonders of America, from big cars to a big hole and, in California, one heck of a big mess
Lies and incompetence are enough in themselves to warrant this government being turfed out. Its vile war on free speech should seal the deal
When it comes to championing free speech, the former Chief Justice of NSW makes at best a limp and hollow-chested contender. To stand for something, you need to understand what is it, and Spigelman has barely a clue
So you think you could make a career in the media. It is isn't difficult, truth be told, if you can master the essential qualities of eltism, myopia, selective outrage, moral inconsistency and groupthink
The Victorian Premier may be driven by a greater ambition than a desire to warm the government benches until Labor is returned to power. If so, Coalition supporters would appreciate a demonstration
Words can now be made to mean whatever our Prime Minister and supporters want them to mean. And their former definitions? Down the memory hole with them!
A government cannot face the electorate on a platform of proven incompetence, so how does Julia Gillard propose to save her party's bacon? With a little help from the ABC, for starters
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