Qantas Qandary

Breaking News: Qantas to Phase out Passengers in Plan to Improve Service (PIS) In a new strategy that it says…

Ukraine Unity

Every conversation in Germany and France, during a recent sojourn, included discussion of the Ukraine war, conveying a palpable feeling…

Kookynie may be a thriving hub of cosmopolitan life, but after two years of pandemic confinement your International Affairs correspondent…

Further to Once Upon a Time in Russia and its portrayal of three of the original oligarchs, my new recommendation…

PART ONE KINDRED: A Cradle Mountain Love Story by Kate Legge is the engaging biographical story of Gustav Weindorfer and…

Hilary Mantel’s epic tome (first in a trilogy) is fictionalised biography of Thomas Cromwell and history of the early Tudor…

DANGER! Here we get to the pointy end of Aussie breakfasts. In the last decade or more, so-called smashed avocado…

The Sea, a novel by John Banville, is disappointing and full of wordy affectation. Archaic and obscure words are sprinkled…

Queensland is not a cultural grey area. Thanks to the Gallery of Modern Art in Brisbane and the Asia-Pacific Triennial…

Alex Miller’s novel, set in the 1920s, traces the momentous choices facing Emily Stanton, as she moves between Melbourne, Paris,…