James Campbell
James Campbell is a reporter and columnist with the Sunday Herald Sun in Melbourne. He has also written for The Times of London. Before joining the paper he worked as an adviser to the State Opposition in Victoria.
Articles by James Campbell
Star candidate Nova could explode in Gillard’s face
And so we begin 2013 back where we were at the end of 2011, with Julia Gillard giving us another…... Read more
The man who mistook his job for a LOLcat
The English novelist Jerome K. Jerome was of the opinion that it is impossible to enjoy idling unless one has…... Read more
Coalition MPs should learn to bite their tongue
Running for Governor of Arkansas in 1982, Bill Clinton had some folksy words to reassure voters he had learned from…... Read more
Labor has lost its base, and now it’s burning bridges
It isn’t hard to find ways to mock Jenny Macklin for her extraordinary claim that she could live on the…... Read more
Aren’t you forgetting something Anne Hathaway?
From time to time developments come along in popular culture that force me to reflect that perhaps I am getting…... Read more
We’re facing a long gestation for this future monarch
Yesterday’s Royal announcement that the Duchess of Cambridge is pregnant had Fleet Street’s finest scrambling for an angle. On the…... Read more
No contest: The Govt is onto a winner with this policy
In recent years there have been so many bad policy ideas come out of Canberra it is hard to decide…... Read more
A man who might sometimes wish he was faceless
Like most of us who make fitful attempts at losing weight, I take note of the astonishing methods celebrities choose…... Read more
Gillard acted like a woman who was losing an argument
By now we have heard enough I think about how the ladies felt about Julia Gillard’s savaging of Tony Abbott…... Read more
How much should you get for running a girl’s school?
On the face of it, it’s hard to know whose side to take in the row over the sacking of…... Read more
Lots of us drink responsibly. BAC off, stop penalising us
When I was very young and very unemployed I was lucky to get a job at the Coroners Court one…... Read more
We’re all rooted if we jail those who speak their minds
On the face of it, there’s not a lot to be said for David McRory and his fellow IT pioneer…... Read more
Get me a packet of Roxon-Menthol and a box of matches
In the wake of last week’s High Court’s decision to uphold the Government’s law mandating that cigarettes be sold in…... Read more
Poor Gordon, plainly a victim of the Scottish play
“It is,” P.G. Wodehouse once wrote, “never difficult to distinguish between a Scotsman with a grievance and a ray of…... Read more
Introducing the White Australia Real Estate Policy
As you get older and more cynical it gets harder for governments’ mendacity to surprise you. But yesterday the Rudd…... Read more
60 Minutes should have run the suicide story
Channel Nine’s decision yesterday to cave in to the bullying of the Victorian Government and Beyond Blue is deeply depressing.…... Read more
Memories of The Troubles fade like a 70’s LSD haze
THIS week the world is marking the 40th anniversary of the Woodstock Music Festival which some at the time hoped…... Read more
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From: Hasbro, go straight to gaol, do not pass go
Tim says:
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