Arts notes
I don’t know how many were present a week ago at The Speccie prolonged lunch but do know that I…
Arts notes
I intend nothing short of a compliment by saying Australia is – or was – a land built on physicality…
Batty notes
When I was a small boy growing up in England, the expression ‘ to have bats in the belfry’ was…
Stasi notes
As the years race by it is tempting to hunt for any advantage one can possibly associate with age. Yet…
Australian notes
On my first visit to Darwin twenty odd years ago to cover the annual Aboriginal art awards a number of…
Post-modern notes
For those of us who exist long enough it is all too easy to live on somehow through decades of…
Life and death notes
Few sensible people who have ever looked at a map would dispute that we are a bit physically isolated down…
Art notes
‘Come and take a look at this – you’re not going to believe it’ my wife called out recently from…
PC notes
On May 3 Tony Abbott urged his audience at the Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research in Perth to place…
Art notes
Prompted by Neil Brown’s perceptive analysis of the role of arts administrator (‘Brown Study’, 22/4) as among the more useless…
Australian notes
When I was offered a full-time job here in 1994, my understanding of this country was limited to say the…
Australian notes
When I was offered a full-time job here in 1994, my understanding of this country was limited to say the…
Finishing off Marx
With the onset of the so-called festive season, I fear that two of the more significant newspaper articles of recent…
Finishing off Marx
With the onset of the so-called festive season, I fear that two of the more significant newspaper articles of recent…
Coercive conformity
Is there any joint lesson to be learned from so-called Brexit and the unlikely-seeming elevation of Donald Trump to the…
Coercive conformity
Is there any joint lesson to be learned from so-called Brexit and the unlikely-seeming elevation of Donald Trump to the…
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