Following recent attempts by ScoMo and his attack dog Dutton to intimidate journalists and whistleblowers with Federal police raids and…
Hubert Wilkins: Uber-Extraordinary Life
Born in 1888 and raised in South Australia, George Hubert Wilkins is unknown to most Australians. Simon Nasht’s well-documented book…
Mandolin & Mussolini
Louis de Bernières’s book Captain Corelli’s Mandolin sold well in the day and prompted a movie with Nicholas Cage and…
Shooters Rule, OK.
Only eight days after the (terrorist) mass murders in Christchurch, punters voting for the glorious state parliament of New South…
International Women’s Day
Recently in Hawaii your eagle-eyed correspondent discovered on a wall in a humble abode this ironic (iconic?) reference to a…
Rainbow Warrior: Lunch with Spies
John Menadue (Qantas boss at the time) recently posted online a memoir vignette of my brush with infamous French secret…
Sewage Swim
The irony of Sydney’s wealthiest suburbs still pumping untreated sewage into the Pacific Ocean is rich indeed! Yup, it’s true:…
Redex 1954 Redux
Peter Carey conjures up a racy ethos and mood in early 1950s suburban Melbourne in his recent novel ‘A Long…
‘Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind’
A best seller by Israeli historian Yuval Harari, sold 10 million copies, translated into 50 languages, it’s unequivocally a must-read.…
Philistines Rule, OK!
So, the ‘iconic’ (obligatory adjective) Sydney Opera House is our biggest billboard, so sayeth PM Scott Morrison aka ScoMo, endorsing…
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