CONTENT
i Leading articles
‘Red tape to red carpet’ A letter to Crisafulli iv Who is an Aborigine?
The single question for the Voice Peter O’Brien v Of Gronks and Yellers
SA Libs need to choose wisely Michael Penn vi Calvary on the cross
Left coming after church hospitals Kevin Andrews vii Florence gets stuck in a pickle
Snowy rescue plan? Judith Sloan viii WHO’s behind our censorship complex Orwell would not be surprised Rebecca Weisser ix Truth bleaching
Freedoms being wiped out Maurice Newman x Going green will roil world politics
Global consequences of renewables Michael Collins xi Plucking the hissing goose
Stop demonising mining Gina Rinehart xii The dirty war on Trump
Durham exposes Evil Eye of Sauron Kerry Wakefield
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THE WEEK
3 Leading article 4 Portrait of the Week 5 Diary My stay with
David Hockney Melvyn Bragg 6 Douglas Murray There is such thing as a stupid question 7 Rod Liddle Welcome to the theatre of the absurd 16 Ancient and modern
Falling through the quacks 17 Mary Wakefield
Anthropomorphism will be our downfall 18 Barometer Speed limits,
council tax and plant-based diets 21 Any other business
Regulators should not roll over for arrogant Revolut Martin Vander Weyer Charles Moore is away.
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8 Ukraine’s next move
Can Putin be outsmarted? Mark Galeotti 9 PR campaign
Has the counter-offensive been over-hyped? Svitlana Morenets 10 The reactionary bohemian
Jeremy Clarke was a one-off David Goodhart 12 Caroline Smith
‘Taking leave’: a poem 13 Hawks vs Trump
His opponents need to prove him wrong on Ukraine Freddy Gray 14 ‘Goodbye, old friend’
We’ll miss you, Jeremy 18 Academic arguments
The teachers putting principles before children Niru Ratnam 20 Baby steps
The curious business of fertility Gus Carter
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