Riotously unfunny
Enthusiastically touted as the first Australian sitcom in fifteen years, Channel 9’s highly promoted Here Come the Habibs has a…
The joy of hate-reading
A delicious look at the tastiest morsels of the year
Lolita turns 60
In the era of ‘trigger warnings’ and PC censorship, would Lolita be as seductive today?
Dying in Turkmenistan (for a fag)
Turkmenistan boasts the lowest smoking rates in the world. How on earth do they do it?
Tajikistan diary
Talking politics in Central Asia is often unwise, so I try to bring it up casually. ‘Oh you won’t believe…
Don’t poke fun at the terrorists
An exclusive interview with Meidyatama Surodiningrat, the ‘blaspheming’ Editor in Chief of the Jakarta Post
Deadly notes
‘The Aussies work out everythin’ backwards,’ says Wilson the Texan in Norman Mailer’s The Naked and the Dead, and there’s…
King hit by the moral crusaders
The wowser brigade distort history to induce moral panic
It’s the Stupid, stupid
Ironic Capitalisation of That Which You Do Not Like is apparently A Thing. You’ll forgive me for employing this Irritating…
Selfies are the new form of radical protest
A narcissistic and directionless Left have forgotten that real activism is more than just pictures
You can’t judge a book by its author’s genitalia
Feminism has lost the plot with the Stella Prize schools literary program
Not in Howard’s image
The PM’s tax changes mark a betrayal of his mentor’s legacy
The silly culture war on Gen Y
The ‘entitlement generation’ is being blamed for the sins of society, from txt spk to coward punches
I love my ABC
And I want the public broadcaster to be privatised
