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…

Overseas travel is back on Aussie agendas, ratcheting up carbon footprints (or indeed wingprints), particularly those of us who headed…

As the Reserve Bank of Australia Governor (a lovely archaic position, redolent of a bygone era of royal appointments!) Philip…

KC’s Sports Scribe hasn’t reported on the World Game aka soccer (a variety of football) since 2009, when visiting St…

On a recent pilgrimage to the Good ‘Ol U.S. of A, while strolling along the main drag of Palm Springs…

While we’re on Australia’s favourite subject and national obsession, no I don’t mean sport, this essay by Alison Pennington may…

On a recent visit to my old stamping ground in Sydney’s eastern suburbs, I was shocked and even nauseous at…

Tom Keneally’s latest historical novel imagines the extraordinary life of John Mitchel, a celebrated Irish rebel during the Great Famine…

KC has avoided commentary on the bulimic, salacious, trivial, true confessions of Harry, English non-heir to the throne. However his…