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BROWN STUDY

A royal commission for Victoria • What will be achieved?

The great company tax trick • Australian shareholders should stop complaining

Missive from Monocultural land • Crisafulli gets a C minus

Japan’s indebtedness threatens the world • Tokyo’s finances are unsustainable

Pauline - prime ministerial patriot • Leading the change of government to liberate Australia

Much is riding on 2028 • If the right cannot unite, they may never get a second chance

Labor pains • Who picks up Jimbo’s tab?

The Art of the Impossible • Jason Arday should have been a minister in the Albanese government

The wrong conclusions

PORTRAIT OF THE WEEK

DIARY

Rescue mission • There’s still time to save the West

Net zeroes • I watched Chris Packham’s climate crisis film so you don’t have to

Be careful what you wish for

Right mess • The feuding at the heart of Reform

Crossing Millennium Bridge

Plastic parsons • Enjoy Anglican priests while you still can

Bond’s identity crisis mirrors Britain’s

The whataboutery delusion • Stop with the totalitarian name-calling

Into a secret mountain kingdom

Overkill • Are Ukraine’s deep strikes simply strengthening Putin’s hand?

The hidden victims of ‘Big Surrogacy’

Running scared • Why won’t the UK curtail the Muslim Brotherhood?

Whine and dine • Dinner parties are a nightmare

Saying Yes to Jackdaw but No to Rosebank would be a weasel compromise

Portable magic • Robert Douglas-Fairhurst reminds us of the mind-altering potential of the novel

A century of turmoil

Friend and patron

Crime of passion

A loyal lieutenant

The cheerful assassin

Marks out of five

The banality of evil

A fortunate captive

Style counsel • Jonathan Meades on the aesthete, collector and collagist Christopher Gibbs, who connected with Everyone and created a new patron class

Brief encounter

All together now

Cast aside

Women on top

The full English

Classic Castellucci

This devastating portrait of Americana

Mulberries

Best life

Real life

Dolce Vita

The Turf

Aussie life

Language

Esports World Cup

Name dropping

2766: Letters latent

It’s the friendly fire that really hurts

The Battle for Britain

A sprint to lift the spirits

Omens and eclipses

Permit me a grouse

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