Craig Pett

The motive for the downing of MH17

13 September 2023 4:00 am

The International Court that presided over the downing of Malaysian Airlines flight MH17 over eastern Ukraine on 17 July 2014…

Aussie life

7 January 2023 9:00 am

There has been some high-brow analysis of Australian boganhood recently. The 2022 compilation of essays, Class in Australia, where writers…

Too close to China?

20 August 2022 9:00 am

Angus Houston’s responses to MH370 raise questions about his fitness to review our defences

What does China know about MH370?

23 April 2022 9:00 am

There are still too many loose ends to the tragic tale of the missing Malaysian aircraft

An alternative South Australian perspective

2 April 2022 2:00 pm

The Flat White article, A South Australian perspective, will win plenty of admirers in Sydney and Melbourne. It is the people…

Literary notes

11 December 2021 9:00 am

The new self-effing help books In a bookshop at Adelaide airport last Christmas I saw a well-dressed woman, seemingly in…

MH370 – the lead that vanished

29 February 2020 9:00 am

The untold untold story

Sic note

21 December 2019 9:00 am

Google’s language skills (sic) We all make mistakes. To quote the Augustan satirist Alexander Pope, ‘to err is humanistic’. But…

2018 Thawley Essay prize runner-up

12 October 2019 9:00 am

At the time of writing, December 2020, the #newedition movement can be considered a truly global phenomenon. As it sets…