Peter Ryan
Peter Ryan
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Editor, essayist and our much loved columnist for 22 years, Peter Ryan left us in 2015. This account of the Manning Clark affair reminds us of his integrity, wit and humour
May 16 2025
7 mins
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A nation worthy of the name can have but one authentic day to celebrate and affirm its unity. Here's a heartening impression drawn from the last time I marched: Asian families whose little kids bore crayoned messages on sheets of white card. 'Thank you' was what they said
Apr 25 2018
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“The unforgotten Brian Fitzpatrick”, of whom I wrote last month, […]
Oct 01 2015
9 mins
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He died almost exactly half a century ago, but don’t […]
Sep 01 2015
8 mins
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I remember precisely my “meeting” with General Sir John Monash, […]
Apr 01 2015
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In high civilisation’s sophisticated art of the “deadly putdown”, do […]
Mar 01 2015
5 mins
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An Unqualified Success: The Extraordinary Life of Allan Percy Fleming […]
Jan 01 2015
8 mins
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The blast of public attention that followed the death of […]
Jan 01 2015
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In Melbourne alone, three parliamentary seats are held by Labor courtesy of Muslim votes. This is change on a tectonic scale, and that makes the official refusal to acknowledge the inclination to violence of Islam's more ardent strains very worrying indeed
Dec 23 2014
9 mins
