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Phillip Adams is a writer, broadcaster, film-maker, farmer and the former host of the ABC’s Late Night Live program on Radio National from 1991 to 2024. He also enjoyed a successful career in advertising, developing iconic campaigns such as Slip,Slop Slap and Life. Be in it.

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CommentaryThe Weekend Australian Magazine

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Here’s my advice: don’t take it

Never give advice, they say. But after eight decades, here are three rules worth sharing: don’t touch an elephant’s private parts, keep your eye on the donut not the hole, and always be prepared.

COMMENTARYThe Weekend Australian Magazine

In the well behaved beehive there are clear echoes of a royal palace.

Monarchy faces its own ‘Colony Collapse Disorder’

Let us consider the problems brought on by the errant behaviour of the bullshit artist previously known as Prince (Andrew).

COMMENTARYThe Weekend Australian Magazine

The actor-director makes a fine Trumpian ambassador.

This country gave Mel Gibson an AO. He doesn’t deserve it

The actor-director makes a fine Trumpian ambassador and deserves a big star on Hollywood Boulevard but he should not be counted among the great or good of the Australian film industry.

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05-06-2025 - 86 year old broadcaster and journalist Phillip Adams has been recognised with an AC in the KingÃs BIrthday honours this year. Photographed at his country estate in Gundy, in the NSW Hunter Valley. Picture: Max Mason-Hubers / The AustralianÃ

Not anti-Semitic to deplore Netanyahu ‘overkill’ in Gaza

While it’s true that I’m sympathetic to the Palestinians, I am no anti-Semite.

COMMENTARYThe Weekend Australian Magazine

Graham Richardson and John Laws for TWAM column

Why I can’t bring myself to eulogise Lawsie or Richo

There is an understandable tradition of saying nice things when someone carks it. To bury their sins with them. But in the cases of John Laws and Graham Richardson?

COMMENTARYThe Weekend Australian Magazine

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Dentures have a gruesome history

From George Washington’s slave teeth to battlefield dentures and false teeth fashioned from the hippos – there is a weird and wacky history to fake chompers.

MAGAZINEThe Weekend Australian Magazine

We need laughter more now than ever.

In a troubled world, we need laughter more than ever

Faced with what me must face, we have two options. We can laugh or we can scream. Don’t you prefer the former?

MAGAZINEThe Weekend Australian Magazine

16/04/2001 PIRATE: Actor comedian Spike Milligan in promotional photo for the Festival of Perth Dec 1979.

Can you solve Spike Milligan’s ridiculous quiz?

Welcome to the Weekend Magazine Superquiz for trivia buffs. Questions compiled by the late Spike Milligan.

MAGAZINEThe Weekend Australian Magazine

Writer and traveller Christopher Hitchens who will be bringing his show 'Religion Poisons Everything' to the Sydney Opera House.

What would Christopher Hitchens make of his AI ‘rebirth’?

A posthumous, AI-generated Hitch, which is not only pitch-perfect politically, but uncannily replicates that famous voice, demonstrates the eerie powers of deepfakery.

COMMENTARYThe Weekend Australian Magazine

(FILES) An employee cleans a 2025 Model Y Tesla vehicle in a Tesla showroom in New York City on February 16, 2025. Tesla reported a seven-percent rise in third-quarter auto deliveries on October 2, 2025, reversing a series of declines in recent quarters attributed partly to backlash to CEO Elon Musk's political activism. The automaker reported deliveries of 497,099. While the figures did not break down sales by region, automakers have seen a jump in US electric vehicle sales due to the expiration of a tax credit under legislation backed by President Donald Trump. (Photo by CHARLY TRIBALLEAU / AFP)

Modern cars have lost their shine. Even trains are more glamorous

Brands that once demanded grovelling and genuflection are now made in India. It’s like discovering that your beloved brand of Scotch is now distilled in Thailand.

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