Based on real events, Katherine Johnson’s fictional account of three Fraser Island (K’gari) aboriginal (Badtjala) people travelling with their German…
Australian-Born Queen
Hear ye, your Royal Reporter is on the job again. No, we’re not talking about an Australian Queen. You would…
Rallying after Referendum
Since the Indigenous Voice referendum went down in October I’ve been waiting for some positive political movement. As the saying…
Highest Schools Competition (HSC)
Publication of final high school exam results (Higher School Certificate) in New South Wales (such an inaccurate metaphor in that…
Bordeaux and Beyond
Overseas travel is back on Aussie agendas, ratcheting up carbon footprints (or indeed wingprints), particularly those of us who headed…
Central Canker
As the Reserve Bank of Australia Governor (a lovely archaic position, redolent of a bygone era of royal appointments!) Philip…
SportsMANship?
KC’s Sports Scribe hasn’t reported on the World Game aka soccer (a variety of football) since 2009, when visiting St…
Talmud Time
On a recent pilgrimage to the Good ‘Ol U.S. of A, while strolling along the main drag of Palm Springs…
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…
Property Pox & Parable
On a recent visit to my old stamping ground in Sydney’s eastern suburbs, I was shocked and even nauseous at…
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