The ongoing debacle of leadership of NSW Labor and Premier’s role is a soap opera, tragi-comedy or facsimile of TV series The Sopranos. Moir’s SMH cartoon … More
Month: August 2009
Balancing ‘Balibo’
Robert Connolly’s film ‘Balibo’ relates events in 1975 in East Timor around the killing of Australian journalists who were reporting on … More
True Confections
Earlier this year Cadbury downsized 250g chocolate blocks to 200g, but changed to cardboard packaging that looked the same size. Retail prices have not fallen accordingly. Removal of … More
Getting Greched
Re the Utegate farce: the Auditor-General reported on Treasury’s role and its senior policy wonk & leak Gollum Grechen, uncovering shortfalls in departmental security … More
Gender Bender
Adolescent boys don’t know how to relate to girls, reports Gordon Parker, a psychiatrist who talks to parents at boys … More
War: Sydney v Kormoran
Australians have an interest, not necessarily well-read, in episodes of their military history. In recent decades inchoate Aussie tribal urges have conjured up ‘remembrance’ travel to foreign cemeteries, former battlefields, prisoner of … More
Body Surfing Boogie
Body surfing at Kookynie goes back to those big rain days of yore when flood waters rushed down the creek into Niagara … More
Timor Time: Letter to G. Whitlam
Dear Gough, Events at Balibo in Timor in 1975, involving the killing of five Australian journalists by Indonesian military, and … More
First Home Follies
Last October the first-home buyers ‘grant’ for purchase of established homes was doubled to $14,000, and tripled to $21,000 for new ones. Since then the average first home … More
‘Public Enemies’
No, its not about fundamentalist terrorists, email-faking public servants or even lying, scabrous politicians. The film ‘Public Enemies’ starring Johnny Depp, Christian Bale and Marion … More
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