Highest Schools Competition (HSC)

Publication of final high school exam results (Higher School Certificate) in New South Wales (such an inaccurate metaphor in that … More

Bordeaux and Beyond

Overseas travel is back on Aussie agendas, ratcheting up carbon footprints (or indeed wingprints), particularly those of us who headed … More

As the Reserve Bank of Australia Governor (a lovely archaic position, redolent of a bygone era of royal appointments!) Philip … More

KC’s Sports Scribe hasn’t reported on the World Game aka soccer (a variety of football) since 2009, when visiting St … More

On a recent pilgrimage to the Good ‘Ol U.S. of A, while strolling along the main drag of Palm Springs … More

While we’re on Australia’s favourite subject and national obsession, no I don’t mean sport, this essay by Alison Pennington may … More

On a recent visit to my old stamping ground in Sydney’s eastern suburbs, I was shocked and even nauseous at … More

Tom Keneally’s latest historical novel imagines the extraordinary life of John Mitchel, a celebrated Irish rebel during the Great Famine … More

KC has avoided commentary on the bulimic, salacious, trivial, true confessions of Harry, English non-heir to the throne. However his … More

By Johann Hari, subtitled ‘Why You Can’t Pay Attention’, this book takes us on a personal three year voyage of … More