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Submarine Sabotage: AUKUS Awkward

PM Scotty recently announced via press conference with new buddies Joe and Boris, that Australia is ditching a submarine-building agreement … More

AUZUS, diplomatic gaffe, French submarine contract, PM Scotty

Re-Joyced Coalition RNA

While busy with pandemic matters, the Australian Federal body politic also caught another severe infection of the Herpes B for … More

Barnaby Joyce, Federal government

Olympian O’Hara

The fading glow of the Tokyo Olympic Games may be momentarily extended by another instalment in the O’Hara story, following … More

1936 Berlin Olympic Games, Dangerous Games: Australia at the 1936 Olympic Games, Dick Garrard wrestler, Eddie scarf wrestler, Hitler, Jesse Owens, John O'Hara wrestler, Larry Writer

‘Once Upon a Time in Russia’

Ben Mezrich’s racy story is sub-titled ‘The Rise of the Oligarchs and the Greatest Wealth in History’*. In very short … More

Alexander Litvinenko, Ben Mezrich, Boris Berezovsky, Roman Abramovich, Russian oligarchs, Vladimir Putin

Jab in the Anzus

After stuffing up vaccine supplies, PM (Pleased Minister) Scotty and his merry band have taken to imploring the US government, … More

ANZUS treaty, Pfizer vaccines, Scotty from Marketing

Posthumous Polites

Roaming the CBD streets of Adelaide you soon notice a one-word sign on the facades of dozens of city buildings: … More

Adelaide CBD, Con Polites

Makaha Mecca

At Makaha Beach on the west coast of Oahu (Hawaii) on December 4th 1969, board rider Greg Noll (Da Bull) … More

Alby Falzon, big wave riding, body surfing, Greg Noll, Makaha Beach Hawaii

Pollies & Property!

Prices of Australian real estate are going crazy again. Shane Wright (SMH 26 June) demonstrates the massive conflict of interest … More

Hal Pawson, negative gearing, Paul Keating, politicians self-interest, real estate boom, Shane Wright

Fairies Exist!

Well, book fairies do, at least. Recently I was sitting inside at a table looking out the front window of … More

#ibelieveinbookfairies, Fairies, Hugh McKay, Humankind, Rutger Bregman, The Book Fairies, The Kindness Revolution, Unidentified Aerial Phenomena

‘The Lieutenant’

I’m a latecomer to Kate Grenville’s writing. So, this is my first book of hers, and what an engaging story, … More

Kate Grenville, Patygegarang, The Lieutenant, William Dawes

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