Aussie Life
Aussie Language
Edward de Bono—the inventor of ‘lateral thinking’—died recently. I interviewed him a number of times on my radio show (he…
Aussie Life
It used to be that sporting endeavour was regarded as a noble cause, and that our sporting pastimes were governed…
Aussie Language
Talking to Peta Credlin on Sky News I coined a new expression, ‘language communists’. I used to call the bullies…
Aussie Life
When I switched on my TV last Sunday I was not at all surprised to see a three-star Australian general…
Aussie Language
‘Gain of function’ is a chilling new expression—well, new to most of us—that has entered our language as a result…
Aussie Language
We are told that sexual assault and sexual harassment happen because men don’t understand consent. NSW has a law before…
Aussie Life
The only time that the BBC has ‘emu-lated’ an Australian broadcaster was in the early Seventies, when it suspended its…
Aussie Language
‘Muck-raking’ is an old journalism expression coined in the US around 1900 to describe two types of journalists: a) those…
Aussie Life
Every time a dog cocks its leg to urinate on the Federation Pavilion in Centennial Park, Sydney, a terminally ill…
Aussie Language
A report in the Australian said ‘anti-Semitic’ hate crimes are on the rise in America – and the FBI and…
Aussie Life
One of the advantages of being an internet sensation is that it greatly reduces the likelihood of you being eaten.…
Aussie Language
The settlement of Christian Porter’s defamation action against the ABC produced the predictable sneering responses from the activists at the…
Aussie Life
The cold snap enveloping much of NSW at time of writing won’t help regional communities battling the mouse plague, such…
Aussie Language
A campaign is needed against the word ‘partner’—so I have started one. It was launched on Peta Credlin’s program on…
Aussie Life
It’s always sad to see the end of a love affair, particularly when the lovers had seemed so enraptured of…
Aussie Language
Writing in The Speccie Dot Wordsworth said: ‘The most effective weapon in cultural warfare is to find a form of…
Aussie Life
Unlike most of the panellists on The Gruen Transfer, I still make ads for a living, and try to exercise…
Aussie Language
The Australian Breastfeeding Association has declared the word ‘mother’ to be ‘non-inclusive’. Does this make linguistic sense? Not for a…
Aussie Life
A recent jaunt through the NSW South Coast town of Bermagui sparked a friendly family rivalry over whose forebears had…
Aussie Language
There is an organisation called ‘Dying with Dignity’. In their most recent newsletter they say, ‘The NSW Parliament looks set…
Aussie Life
As a child I had a version of OCD called Just Right syndrome. This doesn’t mean I lived entirely on…
Aussie Language
Brauer College in Warrnambool, Victoria made the news for having required all the boys at an assembly to ‘stand up…
Aussie Life
I’ve travelled to Melbourne several times a year since I was a child and visited last month for the first…
Aussie Language
The expression ‘culture cringe’ was coined in 1950 by literary critic A. A. Phillips to describe the cringing assumption that…
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The café of the suburban outdoor pool I swam in when I lived in Melbourne in the 1990’s had a…
