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Senate Writings
This is the archive of Cory Bernardi's Weekly Dose of Common Sense newsletter from his time in the Senate
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A Businessman’s Warning
The headline in today’s Australian reflects many of the sentiments that I have been writing about in recent years.
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Greens’ Reality Check
The parliament has risen for the winter break and the past week was characterised by an emotional debate about asylum
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Boot Camp
Six months ago I declared my intention to adopt a healthier lifestyle. The aim was to get fit, lose weight
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Stopping the Death Spiral
The brouhaha over Gina Rinehart’s investment in Fairfax Media is simply astounding. Fairfax has been in a business death
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The Upside Down World of Moral Outrage
The topsy-turvy world of moral relativism and PC judgment came home to roost this week. The disengagement of common sense
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The Truth is Now Out There
For many years we have heard the Labor Party, the Greens and their various sympathisers rabbit on about how the
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Government, God and GetUp!
One hears a lot of (generally left-oriented) advocates for the separation of church and state. Their intention is generally more
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Lessons from Europe
The growing European financial crisis has been as predictable as it has been mismanaged. That the entitlement mentality and successive
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Marked for Death
Mark Steyn is one of the greatest communicators in the world today. He can distil the absurdity of almost any
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Another Night of Spin
A head of a federal budget that aims to re-define the contribution of the Labor Party to our national economic
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Priorities
It is with morbid fascination that most Australians watch the political death throes of Julia Gillard. The press gallery can
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A Rotting Fish
There is an old saying that ‘a fish rots from the head down’. The adage is an appropriate one as