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‘A Moveable Feast’

Ernest Hemingway’s memoir of living with his first wife Hadley in Paris in 1921-26, as a young struggling writer, is … More

Ernest Hemingway, Renault 1922 Tourer MT Torpedo, Scott Fitzgerald, The Moveable Feast

Jumbo Jets Out

On 22 July the last Qantas Boeing 747-400 departed Sydney Airport on its final flight to retirement in the Mojave … More

Qantas 747-400, QF7474, Spirit of Australia

Mask Matters

Inspirational Elizabeth Farrelly explains eloquently (SMH Aug 8-9) in this pandemic-protection era, the meaning and transformative qualities of masks, the … More

Elizabeth Farrelly, Hugh Mackay, The Inner Self - the Joy of Discovering Who We Really Are

Facts & Science

The U.S. Buffoon-in-Chief said last Friday: “The facts are going to determine what I do”.  Such gross irony was apparently … More

Adani, Anthony Fauci, carbon pollution reduction, climate change, Dr Brendan Murphy, Scotty from Marketing, Trump

Pop-Up Socialism

Well, who would’ve thought that a Federal government of neo-liberal ‘dries’ would come up with $190 billion of spending to … More

Big Government, Helicopter Money, Jobseeker, Milton Friedman, Milton Keynes, public goods, quantitative easing, Scotty from Marketing, snap back, Universal Basic Income

Republican Party Mea Culpa

Stuart Stevens is a Republican ‘consultant’, whose book about the Republican Party, It Was All a Lie, will be published … More

coronavirus, Republican Party, Stuart Stevens, The Washington Post

Planetary Health & Pandemic

A KC team recently travelled in the south of the North Island, blissfully ignorant like the NZ government, of the … More

COVID-19, New Zealand, pandemics, Planetary health

Minister for Toilet Paper

It seems that Scotty from Marketing has forgotten that he’s only Prime Minister of Australia and not Minister for Everything, … More

Minister for Toilet Paper, Scotty from Marketing

War & Waste 

The Australian War Memorial in Canberra will blow a cool $500 million to expand again over the next nine years. … More

Anzac Hall, Australian Institute of Architecture, Australian War Memorial, building carbon footprint, Denton Corker Marshal, philistinism

Political Palsy

The Australian body politic (that includes us) is paralysed on ‘climate action’, thanks to a failed political class and our … More

Barnaby Joyce, climate action, Don Watson, Elizabeth Farrelly, Scotty from Marketing

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