Richard Flanagan’s latest book is a semi-autobiographical memoir and his last, as he claims to have nothing further to write … More
Category: Society
Go Garma
Hyperbole works best when it really goes off the scale. The outgoing director of the worthy Garma Festival of Yolngu … More
Oppenheimer Opinions
Oppenheimer the movie has covered itself with Oscars, and I must say that I enjoyed it too, as entertainment. But, … More
Porto Portrait
I’ve been thinking about this dilemma since I started travelling overseas in the early 1970s: how to reconcile our endless … More
‘Paris Savages’
Based on real events, Katherine Johnson’s fictional account of three Fraser Island (K’gari) aboriginal (Badtjala) people travelling with their German … More
Australian-Born Queen
Hear ye, your Royal Reporter is on the job again. No, we’re not talking about an Australian Queen. You would … More
Rallying after Referendum
Since the Indigenous Voice referendum went down in October I’ve been waiting for some positive political movement. As the saying … More
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
Talmud Time
On a recent pilgrimage to the Good ‘Ol U.S. of A, while strolling along the main drag of Palm Springs … More
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