Sutherland Starred

Sad news: my old mate the actor Donald Sutherland passed away on Thursday, aged 88. We haven’t been in touch…

Sub Standard

The federal submarine corporation ASC is struggling to maintain the Australian navy’s six ageing (i.e. old) Collins class boats, originally…

Well, self congratulations are in order today, as KC celebrates our 15th year anniversary, which is apparently signified by crystal…

Loyal readers may have been feeling trepidatious today about an Anzac Day breakout from the KC newsroom, as the senior…

Wifedom (sub-tilted Mrs Orwell’s Invisible Life) by Anna Funder. Orwell (The Authorised Biography) by Michael Shelden. I may have bitten…

I’d read reviews of Yanis Varoufakis’s recent book Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism about the new kind of economic power exercised…

Richard Flanagan’s latest book is a semi-autobiographical memoir and his last, as he claims to have nothing further to write…

Hyperbole works best when it really goes off the scale. The outgoing director of the worthy Garma Festival of Yolngu…

Oppenheimer the movie has covered itself with Oscars, and I must say that I enjoyed it too, as entertainment. But,…

I’ve been thinking about this dilemma since I started travelling overseas in the early 1970s: how to reconcile our endless…