Press Freedom & Failure

Following recent attempts by ScoMo and his attack dog Dutton to intimidate journalists and whistleblowers with Federal police raids and … More

Hubert Wilkins: Uber-Extraordinary Life

Born in 1888 and raised in South Australia, George Hubert Wilkins is unknown to most Australians. Simon Nasht’s well-documented book … More

Louis de Bernières’s book Captain Corelli’s Mandolin sold well in the day and prompted a movie with Nicholas Cage and … More

Only eight days after the (terrorist) mass murders in Christchurch, punters voting for the glorious state parliament of New South … More

Recently in Hawaii your eagle-eyed correspondent discovered on a wall in a humble abode this ironic (iconic?) reference to a … More

John Menadue (Qantas boss at the time) recently posted online a memoir vignette of my brush with infamous French secret … More

The irony of Sydney’s wealthiest suburbs still pumping untreated sewage into the Pacific Ocean is rich indeed! Yup, it’s true: … More

Peter Carey conjures up a racy ethos and mood in early 1950s suburban Melbourne in his recent novel ‘A Long … More

A best seller by Israeli historian Yuval Harari, sold 10 million copies, translated into 50 languages, it’s unequivocally a must-read. … More

So, the ‘iconic’ (obligatory adjective) Sydney Opera House is our biggest billboard, so sayeth PM Scott Morrison aka ScoMo, endorsing … More