A different take on the Jesus story
My favourite Christmas story … stop me if you’ve heard it. According to the late Sydney theologian Dr Barbara Thiering’s…
Aussie Life
As a child in Budapest, I heard my grandfather tell the family around the Sunday lunch table to beware the…
Diary
Gulag survivor and author Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn famously said that one of the biggest mistakes people make is assuming totalitarianism can’t…
Woke notes
Chinese aggression and the New Cold War The elderly woman in the ground floor flat was the janitor of the…
Character building
Having fired off his first challenge in paragraph one (‘Read every word of this book, but don’t believe a word…
Undercurrents
Former Melbourne detective Colin McLaren’s cold case book into the 2009 disappearance of Bob Chappell and the 2010 conviction of…
Cursed by their own art
Why do all our favourite, talented (e.g. Jim Carrey, Richard Gere), much acclaimed film stars (e.g. Meryl Streep, Sally Field)…
No guilt, no apology
Convicted of murder, Derek Bromley can teach us all a lesson about saying sorry when we are not guilty. And…
Labor’s quagmire of incompetence
A standard political tactic (of all sides) is to paint your opponents as inhumane or wreckers and wilful destroyers of…
Lunch with Leo and Sir Francis
I was having a chat with renowned Russian writer Leo Tolstoy and brilliant British empiricist and champion of the scientific…
