Mea culpa: Professor George Williams, Dean of Law at UNSW, and KC’s legal affairs correspondent got it wrong. The High … More
Category: Society
Marriage Blues
Not seven-year-itch, or bitch about the beloved partner. Actually that’s probably the average life span of a marriage these days? … More
Politicians & Perjury
In this post-truth Trumpian world we now all inhabit, public interest in unveiling the falsehoods, falsity, fictions, fabrications, fibs and … More
Berlin 1936 Redux
Recently while on assignment in Berlin your KC correspondent tip-toed in his father’s footsteps at Olympia-Stadion, the site of Hitler’s … More
Burkini Ban
Nicely alliterative headline, but news from La Belle France is disturbing. French Mayors with local beaches have decided to ban … More
God is Poor Exemplar
Fellow pundit Mungo McCallum, the oracle from Billinudgel, has clearly debunked the Australian Christian Lobby’s use of God’s fine words … 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 Smell of Pell
We all have visceral instincts and without literally smelling him, my senses signal that Cardinal George Pell, that erstwhile defender … 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
School of Hard Knox
Oh dear, the motto of Knox Grammar School is ‘Virgile Agitur’, which translates as ‘Doing the Manly Thing’. As the … More