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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

Australian monarchy, Queen Mary

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

Council of Peaks, National Agreement on Closing the Gap, Pat Turner, PM Albo, Voice Referendum

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

Bordeaux, European travel

Talmud Time

On a recent pilgrimage to the Good ‘Ol U.S. of A, while strolling along the main drag of Palm Springs … More

Jewish evangelist, Palm Springs Chabad, Talmud Time

Gravy Train of Greed

While we’re on Australia’s favourite subject and national obsession, no I don’t mean sport, this essay by Alison Pennington may … More

Alison Pennington, GEN F'D, Property gravy train

Property Pox & Parable

On a recent visit to my old stamping ground in Sydney’s eastern suburbs, I was shocked and even nauseous at … More

my family real estate story, property parable, property pox

Harry Horror

KC has avoided commentary on the bulimic, salacious, trivial, true confessions of Harry, English non-heir to the throne. However his … More

Battenberg-Windsors, Prince Harry, Spare

‘Stolen Focus’

By Johann Hari, subtitled ‘Why You Can’t Pay Attention’, this book takes us on a personal three year voyage of … More

Johann Hari, Stolen Focus

‘In Praise of Idleness’

At the last turn of a century I departed salaried employment to ‘have a break’ from corporate life, which then … More

attitudes to work, Bertrand Russell, In Praise of Idleness

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