Hugh Man

At beachfronts and headlands along the Australian east coast, desecration of innocent rocks with hand-painted dedications and memorials to departed…

Killing by Numbers

Ex-CIA boss James Comey has been indicted by the US Department of Justice for threatening to kill the President with…

Hungary has massively rejected veteran autocrat Orbàn and his oligarchy at the ballot box, despite his controlled state and private…

What an extraordinary juxtaposition of US mastery and impotence on display today. Irony does not begin to describe the yawning…

George Orwell’s ‘1984’ as shorthand to signify totalitarian control of society and the malign pervasive rule of ‘Big Brother’ have…

During the last Australia Day so-called celebrations we again had the spectacle of One Nation, proxy neo-Nazis and Nationals all…

Unfortunately this download got stuck for a month or so in the back office, where the sub-editors slacked off. They’re…

Since we’re talking about shortcomings of Australian PMs, a recent release of Federal Cabinet papers from 2005 definitively nails one…

PM Anthony Albanese has an uninspiring, slippery character, honed by a lifetime of political practice, the dark arts of Labor…

The 2018 film by Julian Schnabel titled At Eternity’s Gate is a real gem, which somehow escaped my attention till…