The Federal Opposition finally announced some lightweight details of its risible collective thought bubble about throwing Australia’s power switch to … More
Category: Society
Fester Season (Revised)
(My original piece has been revised below, as I’ve reconsidered crime numbers in the light of Mark Twain’s famous maxim … More
Trumped Again
Think of the time we all wasted before the recent US elections reading poll experts and pundits all agreeing that … More
Japan Primer
Japan is a fascinating country, that we visited in July. Aussies are flocking to the ‘Thinking Man’s Bali’. The mix … More
Anzac Angst
Loyal readers may have been feeling trepidatious today about an Anzac Day breakout from the KC newsroom, as the senior … More
‘Question 7’
Richard Flanagan’s latest book is a semi-autobiographical memoir and his last, as he claims to have nothing further to write … More
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
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