The New Black

Despite colonial Van Demonian (oh yeah!) attempts to exterminate its aborigines in the 1820-30s, it seems that the extant Tasmanian … More

Humpty Trumpty

The mind-bending Trumpian world operates in a bulletproof moral and factual vacuum, which has made sarcasm and irony, my tools … More

Coping with Tim

Tim Cope is an Australian adventurer who made a remarkable solo trip by horseback from Mongolia to Hungary over a … More

‘4321’

My friend Clare gave me an endurance test with the gift of 4321, an 866 page novel by Paul Auster, … More

Revenant

(French, present participle of revenir, to return – when used in English curiously it is more dramatic, from the dead, like the … More

‘The Laughter of Triumph’

As governments gather metadata on our internet communications and try to force journalists to divulge their sources, in the name … More

Anzac Fatigue & Iraq Redux

It’s meant to describe a feeling of consumer overload of Anzac themed TV offerings crashing in the ratings. Commercialisation is … More

‘Amnesia’

Peter Carey’s latest book is a curious tale of young cyberattack heroes with backgrounds in the early days of computer … More

Lucky Ludwig

Explorer extraordinaire Ludwig Leichhardt had lots of luck throughout his short life, but he pushed the limits so hard that … More

‘The Narrow Road to the Deep North’

Richard Flanagan is an admirable fellow because of his generosity and outspoken progressive political views. His latest and prize-winning novel … More