The End.

Oh ok, in our ‘news feed’ between Pauline’s latest brain fart and American football entertaining a big crowd in Melbourne, … More

Geez, Xi!

Maaate, comrade!? Further to the short list of vernacular expressions in Oriental Wisdom, a provocative addition was spotted yesterday in … More

Gambling Gargantua

Which metaphor best describes the parasitic and perniciously harmful effects of the outsized gambling industry on Australian society and our … More

Oriental Wisdom

Redolent of a bygone Western imperialist era of learning and borrowing Eastern concepts, the term often covers yin & yang, … More

Hispanics Hurrah

As a schoolboy rugby player, soccer has always been soccer for me, but I accept that the recent World Cup … More

‘Betsy and the Emperor’

Anne Whitehead relates the engaging story of the unlikely meeting in 1815 on the island of Saint Helena, of thirteen … More

CSA Take Off

A new Australian political party has been born. Teal independents Zali Steggall and Allegra Spender announced their two-person founding membership … More

Capitalism Rules, ok?

SpaceX shares floated just last week and have since ‘slumped’ US$800 billion in value, which is equal to the GDP … More

‘The Proud Tower’

Subtitled A portrait of the world before the war 1890-1914, by Barbara Tuchman, it is an impressive history of the … More

Hugh Man

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