Public Health: a lesson in diverse failure
Despite the findings of the Coate Report, a major question remains: why was the state of Victoria unprepared for the Covid…
CPAC tests Libs
First up, we can all agree that the Australian Conservative Political Action Conference held last weekend at Sydney’s International Convention…
Brown study
Beyond any doubt, the most enthralling aspect of politics and government is the trainwreck interview. It is pretty much like…
CPAC notes
Some readers may recall that a few weeks back I told you about Canada’s new conservative opposition leader Pierre Poilievre.…
Where is the accountability for Covid policy harms?
The lessons of Iraq atrocities now apply to lockdowns, restrictions and mandates
Fool’s gold
With Australia heading toward a referendum next year on a constitutionally enshrined indigenous ‘voice’ to parliament, the need for a…
A sapphic rom-com not to be missed
What a relief it is that Virginia Gay’s adaptation of Rostand’s Cyrano de Bergerac should finally have opened in Sarah…
Aussie life
Recent reports of a WA man being killed by a kangaroo have been syndicated by foreign news agencies for much…
Language
The word ‘they’ has two legitimate uses and one illegitimate use. The first proper and legitimate use is as the…
Paxman on Parkinson’s
On first impression, you might have thought that Unbreakablewas just a fairly desperate reality show cobbled together from I’m a…
A world apart
William Kentridge’s work has a way of sticking in the mind. I can remember all my brief encounters with it,…
High life
New York I am seriously thinking of visiting a shrink (just kidding) as I now have definite proof that I…
Spark of genius
Lindsey Buckingham, at 72, still has cheekbones that cast shadows. He has the upright shock of hair, too, though now…
‘A really complicated person’
Almost two years after the death of Jan Morris, the jaunty travel writer and pioneer of modern gender transition, her…
