The presumption of guilt
In a sweltering, steamy Queensland summer, strange things happen when it gets too hot to handle. Violent crime was the…
The rise of the Fifth Estate
In 1891, Oscar Wilde wrote: ‘In old days men had the rack. Now they have the Press. That is an improvement certainly.…
The Shinkansen to Hiroshima: a Covid-Haunted world
When Michael Jackson famously started wearing face masks, many took it as evidence that the great man had succumbed to…
Australia’s Amsterdam moment
The new film Amsterdam from David O Russell tells of an almost forgotten moment in American history when, in 1933, a group…
