Loyal readers may have been feeling trepidatious today about an Anzac Day breakout from the KC newsroom, as the senior … More
Author: POH
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
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
‘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
Go Garma
Hyperbole works best when it really goes off the scale. The outgoing director of the worthy Garma Festival of Yolngu … More
Oppenheimer Opinions
Oppenheimer the movie has covered itself with Oscars, and I must say that I enjoyed it too, as entertainment. But, … More
Porto Portrait
I’ve been thinking about this dilemma since I started travelling overseas in the early 1970s: how to reconcile our endless … More
‘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
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
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