Loyal readers may have been feeling trepidatious today about an Anzac Day breakout from the KC newsroom, as the senior…
Orwellian Overtures
Wifedom (sub-tilted Mrs Orwell’s Invisible Life) by Anna Funder. Orwell (The Authorised Biography) by Michael Shelden. I may have bitten…
Hi-Tech Serfdom
I’d read reviews of Yanis Varoufakis’s recent book Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism about the new kind of economic power exercised…
‘Question 7’
Richard Flanagan’s latest book is a semi-autobiographical memoir and his last, as he claims to have nothing further to write…
Go Garma
Hyperbole works best when it really goes off the scale. The outgoing director of the worthy Garma Festival of Yolngu…
Oppenheimer Opinions
Oppenheimer the movie has covered itself with Oscars, and I must say that I enjoyed it too, as entertainment. But,…
Porto Portrait
I’ve been thinking about this dilemma since I started travelling overseas in the early 1970s: how to reconcile our endless…
‘Paris Savages’
Based on real events, Katherine Johnson’s fictional account of three Fraser Island (K’gari) aboriginal (Badtjala) people travelling with their German…
Australian-Born Queen
Hear ye, your Royal Reporter is on the job again. No, we’re not talking about an Australian Queen. You would…
Rallying after Referendum
Since the Indigenous Voice referendum went down in October I’ve been waiting for some positive political movement. As the saying…