Aussie life
Amanda Stoker’s willingness to talk about her bottom has given David Van the distinction of becoming Australia’s first real subject…
Aussie life
With the exception of two or three of our tastier fish species, I doubt if anything in Australia has taken…
Aussie life
Imagine waking from a 50-year coma to find that the TV in your recovery room was permanently tuned to a…
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As the head of a dynasty which owes its wealth and influence to military aggression, white supremacy and colonial exploitation,…
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The Melbourne Comedy Festival’s continuing refusal to apologise for not closing this year’s festival with a tribute to its co-founder…
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‘Where did all the poof readers go?’ is not a question which would make it into many Australian publications. I…
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Australia’s greatest footy rivalries used to be strictly intra-code affairs – obvious examples being league’s State of Origin, union’s Bledisloe,…
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Two weeks after our Prime Minister told us he will be attending the coronation of Charles III we still don’t…
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The now universally acknowledged failure of vaccines and masks to reduce your chances of spreading, contracting or dying from Covid…
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I was visiting my son in California when I first heard about ChatGPT, the real-time writing app which has gotten…
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The return of the Mardi Gras Parade to Oxford Street after a two-year absence will be welcomed by the majority…
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What white Anglo male over the age of 50 can honestly say they’ve never worn a Nazi uniform? When I…
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Anyone reading this magazine for the first time, unaware of its dual citizenship, might easily form the impression that it…
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When I wrote on this page recently about Alan Bond’s America’s Cup boxing kangaroo mascot being repurposed by the Australian…
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It has become the standard practice of Australian property developers to decorate the hoardings around inner-city construction sites with photographs…
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That alcohol-related death rates rose during the pandemic might be the least surprising announcement ever made by the Australian Bureau…
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Australian manufacturers have long been obliged to alert consumers to health hazards. As soon as we found out that peanuts…
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Recent reports of a WA man being killed by a kangaroo have been syndicated by foreign news agencies for much…
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‘I’d rather see a church burn,’ is my usual response to a glass of wine getting knocked over. So if…
Queening ‘til the end
If you were saddened to learn of the death of Queen Elizabeth II (and evidently very few people on the…
Aussie life
Anthony Albanese’s republican sympathies were a matter of public record when a Voice to Parliament wasn’t even a whisper in…
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‘Why can’t a woman be more like a man? complains Henry Higgins in My Fair Lady, a musical whose title…
