Sutherland Starred

Sad news: my old mate the actor Donald Sutherland passed away on Thursday, aged 88. We haven’t been in touch … More

Sub Standard

The federal submarine corporation ASC is struggling to maintain the Australian navy’s six ageing (i.e. old) Collins class boats, originally … More

Well, self congratulations are in order today, as KC celebrates our 15th year anniversary, which is apparently signified by crystal … More

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

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

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

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

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

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

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