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Christopher Pyne was the federal Liberal MP for Sturt from 1993 to 2019, and served as a minister in the Howard, Abbott, Turnbull and Morrison governments. He now runs consultancy and lobbying firms GC Advisory and Pyne & Partners and writes a weekly column for The Advertiser.

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Christopher Pyne with his West Highland Scottish terriers, Daphne and Scout at his house in the Adelaide Hills.Thursday June 25 2020 Pic Roy Van Der Vegt

How do we clean up our tired central boulevard?

King William St is grimy, dirty, often abandoned and unpleasant. But everyone has a role to play in restoring it.

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Embargoed June 28th 2020 SA WEEKEND . Christopher Pyne - at his Adelaide hills home, for the launch of his insider book for saweekend story

Trump blots even own page in history

It’s been 150 years since a US president spat the dummy and refused to attend their successor’s inauguration. It’s embarrassing and pathetic.

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United States Ambassador to Australia Arthur B. (A.B.) Culvahouse Jr and Prime Minister Scott Morrison during an Australia Day Citizenship Ceremony and Flag Raising event in Canberra, Sunday, January 26, 2020. (AAP Image/Mick Tsikas) NO ARCHIVING

Vital US ambassador must be bold

The US ambassador is one of the most crucial roles Joe Biden will appoint for Australia, Christopher Pyne says – and we need someone to speak their mind.

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TOPSHOT - Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson gestures as he holds a remote press conference to update the nation on the post-Brexit trade agreement, inside 10 Downing Street in central London on December 24, 2020. - Britain said on Thursday, December 24, 2020 an agreement had been secured on the country's future relationship with the European Union, after last-gasp talks just days before a cliff-edge deadline. (Photo by Paul GROVER / POOL / AFP)

Now is our time to catch Europe on the Brexit rebound

With Britain’s unhappy marriage to Europe over at last, both will be looking to impress other partners, writes Christopher Pyne.

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(FILES) In this file photo taken on May 17, 1971 music legend John Lennon poses for photographers in Cannes 17 May 1971 where he presented his movies 'Apotheosis' and 'The Flu'. - John Lennon's career was cut short 40 years ago, on December 8, 1980, when he was shot dead in New York. (Photo by - / AFP)

Sure, he was a leftie, but John Lennon got this spot on

He might not share the same politics, but one particular lyric from John Lennon spurs Christopher Pyne to look back at 2020 with a different perspective.

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MACAU, CHINA - JANUARY 28: Residents wearing face mask purchase seafood at a wet market on January 28, 2020 in Macau, China. Macau reported with seven cases of Wuhan coronavirus infections as the number of those who have died from the virus in China has climbed over hundred on Tuesday and cases have been reported in other countries including the United States,Thailand, Japan, Taiwan, and South Korea. (Photo by Anthony Kwan/Getty Images)

China experiencing ‘PR year from hell’

China’s treatment of Australia these past few months might be painful to many, but the blue between the two countries is worse for them than us.

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Shadow Minister for Foreign Affairs Penny Wong during the Australian Financial Review (AFR) summit, Investing for Growth, at the Hilton Hotel in Sydney, Tuesday, March 10, 2020. (AAP Image/Dean Lewins) NO ARCHIVING

Outdated leftie ideas let nuclear option go to waste

Senator Penny Wong and her South Australian Labor team should be putting Kimba above kale, writes Christopher Pyne.

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This photo taken on January 16, 2020 shows a burnt out part of local farmer Rick Morris' 2,300-acre property on Kangaroo Island after bushfires ravaged the island off of the south coast of Australia. - Australia is reeling from bushfires that since September 2019 have claimed 28 lives, including two on Kangaroo Island, and razed 10 million hectares (100,000 square kilometres) of land -- an area larger than South Korea or Portugal. (Photo by PETER PARKS / AFP) / TO GO WITH Australia-livestock-fire-environment,FOCUS by Holly ROBERTSON

A year to forget for so many reasons

The year 2020 has been shocking, rotten and depressing. Christopher Pyne reflects on a horror year – and what comes next.

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Caption: An Australian Special Operations Task Group soldiers observing the valley during the Shah Wali Kot Offensive. Mid Caption: Shah Wali Kot Offensive Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF) partnered with Australian Special Forces from the Special Operations Task Group conducted a deliberate operation to clear a Taliban insurgent stronghold in the Shah Wali Kot region of northern Kandahar province. The Shah Wali Kot Offensive comprised synchronised and deliberate clearance operations involving Australian Commandos combined with a number of surgical helicopter-born assaults from Special Air Service (SAS) troops on key targets. Removing Taliban insurgents from Afghan communities allows the Government of Afghanistan to establish a presence and gain the trust of the community to provide them with necessary infrastructure and security that was not provided by the insurgents. Picture: Department of Defence

I’m shattered by war crime report

While one war crime is one too many, the ADF members accused of them number 25. Spare a thought for the other 26,000 who only thought to serve.

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ADELAIDE, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos November 10: South Australian Treasurer Rob Lucas hands down the 2020-21 Star Budget during Question time at Parliament House. . Photo: NCA NewsWire / Kelly Barnes

South Australia can’t afford to lose Rob Lucas

The thriftiness of SA’s Treasurer is legendary but recent events make those accounts seem like fairy tales, writes Christopher Pyne.

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