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Anzac Angst

Loyal readers may have been feeling trepidatious today about an Anzac Day breakout from the KC newsroom, as the senior … More

Anzac Day, Anzackery, Australians in WW1, Kokoda Trail, Peter Fitzsimons

Orwellian Overtures

Wifedom (sub-tilted Mrs Orwell’s Invisible Life) by Anna Funder. Orwell (The Authorised Biography) by Michael Shelden. I may have bitten … More

1984, Anna Funder, book-review, books, Eileen Blair, Eric Blair, George Orwell, literary life, Michael Shelden, Orwell, Question 7, reviews, Richard Flanagan, Wifedom

Hi-Tech Serfdom

I’d read reviews of Yanis Varoufakis’s recent book Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism about the new kind of economic power exercised … More

Big Tech, digital revolution, Techofeudalism, What Killed Capitalism, Yanis Varoufakis

‘Question 7’

Richard Flanagan’s latest book is a semi-autobiographical memoir and his last, as he claims to have nothing further to write … More

atomic bomb, book-review, books, Chekhov, H.G. Wells, Hiroshima, Leo Szilard, Question 7, Rebecca West, reviews, Richard Flanagan

Go Garma

Hyperbole works best when it really goes off the scale. The outgoing director of the worthy Garma Festival of Yolngu … More

Day of the Dead, Diwali, Garma Festival, Tour de France

Oppenheimer Opinions

Oppenheimer the movie has covered itself with Oscars, and I must say that I enjoyed it too, as entertainment. But, … More

atomic bomb development, Christopher Nolan, Cillian Murphy, film, Mark Oliphant, movies, Oppenheimer, Paul Ham

Porto Portrait

I’ve been thinking about this dilemma since I started travelling overseas in the early 1970s: how to reconcile our endless … More

Europe, mass tourism, photography, Porto, Portugal, travel

‘Paris Savages’

Based on real events, Katherine Johnson’s fictional account of three Fraser Island (K’gari) aboriginal (Badtjala) people travelling with their German … More

K'GARI stories, Katherine Johnson, Paris Savages

Australian-Born Queen

Hear ye, your Royal Reporter is on the job again. No, we’re not talking about an Australian Queen. You would … More

Australian monarchy, Queen Mary

Rallying after Referendum

Since the Indigenous Voice referendum went down in October I’ve been waiting for some positive political movement. As the saying … More

Council of Peaks, National Agreement on Closing the Gap, Pat Turner, PM Albo, Voice Referendum

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