Michael Scammell

Tay-tay & the theory of relativity

2 March 2024 9:00 am

Let’s do the Turnbull-Morrison time warp

Aussie life

29 July 2023 9:00 am

Wellbeing is complicated. Like junk food and cigarettes, we need professionals to explain it to us, maybe with an expensive…

Aussie life

18 March 2023 9:00 am

A new Arts policy has been released to help raise the creative standard just as a balding redhead called Ed…

Aussie life

4 February 2023 9:00 am

Apparently, Melbourne will soon overtake Sydney as Australia’s largest city. I’m not saying this is a good or bad thing,…

Aussie life

30 July 2022 9:00 am

New US Ambassador Caroline Kennedy had them at her first media conference interjection: when the white, stale male journalist (the…

#Auspol: rinse and repeat

10 June 2022 2:00 pm

Here’s my free election analysis that won’t get me on a panel show where people shout about their feelings or…

Get ready for 'campaign confusion'

19 March 2022 9:00 am

Things are different since the great election overreach of 2019. You can sense the change. We need to get with…

Summer's worst political commentators...

28 January 2022 9:00 am

So how is your summer going? Trousers off, melting ice cream on the car seat, screaming children in the back,…

Australian notes

4 December 2021 9:00 am

The unbearable lightness of lying Ever since French President Emmanuel Macron told a credulous Australian media that he doesn’t think,…

Childhood experiments

6 November 2021 4:30 pm

Somebody once sang that the children are our future at a baseball match in New York but they never said anything about them being the collateral damage…

‘Strong Female Lead’ is weak on the truth

25 September 2021 9:00 am

A documentary about Julia Gillard peddles fake news

Ben Eltham vs Craig Kelly: it’s never ok to dox

1 September 2021 2:48 pm

Yesterday on Twitter, Guardian Australian Arts writer Ben Eltham, possibly bored from writing about culture in a country that doesn’t…

Why I write or Hemingway’s chicken suit

29 August 2021 12:00 pm

Flat White lore is rich with stories of those who didn’t quite make it and those who did make it but we really wish hadn’t, and those who may make…

The Taliban take over The Age Green Guide

23 August 2021 4:00 pm

At a time when the world is going to hell and some perspective is desperately needed, thank God for the…

Aussie Life

7 August 2021 9:00 am

The voiceover says new ABC series Ms Represented is all about Australian women in politics but really it’s all about…

Good Jon bad

29 June 2021 3:10 pm

Here’s an old writers trick that doesn’t involve moving to Tunisia and becoming a dope fiend. If you don’t want to say…

Dan is back

26 June 2021 9:00 am

Melburnians are on the verge of nervous breakdown

The great G7 jacket wars

13 June 2021 4:41 pm

It’s the G7 and as world leaders gather here’s the big question: who wore it better – Dr Jill and the psychobabble elder-care…

My daddy issues

6 June 2021 12:49 pm

Prince Harry wants to talk about his childhood and work out whom to blame. So do I. I grew-up in Mount Waverley and they really were…

Our Aussie contenders for the 2022 Oscars in full

30 April 2021 2:48 pm

It’s Academy Award time and the votes are in for best female black actor in a male Latino role.   Meanwhile…

Magda versus the Morrisons – and more

15 April 2021 7:35 pm

On A Current Affair Magda Szubanski said it was ok for her to criticize Jenny Morrison because of the growing…

Aussie Life

27 March 2021 9:00 am

I’m back from Sydney and just coming out of my drunken stupor – a 12-hour bender at a resuscitated Qantas…

Writers block

6 March 2021 4:02 pm

Was it Snoopy who said Being-A-Writer means never having to complete your novel? I’ve been thinking a lot about being…

Why everything ScoMo does is wrong in the left’s weird world

24 February 2021 4:00 am

The political and cultural Left claim that when it comes to the big issues they are not-playing-politics. They say it all the time. But they are currently…

So what can we say about the Podium Poet?

22 January 2021 4:47 pm

So let’s talk about the poetry thing and the poet who read poetry at the inauguration. America’s National Youth Poet Laureate Amanda Gorman who recited the…