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…
The New Black
Despite colonial Van Demonian (oh yeah!) attempts to exterminate its aborigines in the 1820-30s, it seems that the extant Tasmanian…
PM Loses AAA Rating
Well, it wasn’t rocket surgery for KC to correctly predict the PM’s imminent demise. The political circus act in the…
Shorten Sweet
Since this yummy headline appeared over a Paddy Manning article in The Monthly on 30 July, I’ve been hoping for…