Don’t silence the anti-vaxxers
Pfizer has come up trumps. Now that a vaccine for Covid-19 is more than just a possibility, we can breathe…
Yet another senior departure in Danandrewstan raises fresh questions
No one could accuse Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews of not being decisive — and certainly not when it comes to…
It ain’t over ‘til it’s over
Joe Biden and Kamala Harris have declared themselves the winners of the US presidential election; news which should fill many…
Election notes
They want him to 'turn the other cheek' so that they can have a free ride to power regardless of what laws they have broken and what cheating they've stooped to
Business/Robbery etc.
Treasury plans to fill the RBA’s interest rate vacuum Is it cause for alarm, or an inevitable trend, that the…
The Undoing
It’s a strange prospect for strange times, the young violinist Freya Franzen on the stage of Melbourne’s Concert Hall playing…
Arthur Streeton Land of the Golden Fleece 1926
In February 1922, Princess Mary, the only daughter of King George V and Queen Mary, was married in the first…
Aussie Life & Language
Simon Collins A British newspaper once ran a TV ad extolling the virtues of journalistic objectivity. ‘Point of view’, which…
Power play
Praising the grand old maestri of the podium isn’t a good look, as they say on Twitter. Conductors such as…
Evil genius
One day someone is going to have to write the definitive study of Wikipedia’s influence on letters. What, after all,…
Letters
Cancelled procedures Sir: Your leader (‘A lockdown too far’, 7 November) suggests that the Prime Minister should have shown ‘leadership’…
The Brick
I own a few chess books that could serve as a murder weapon, but none so hefty as Chess: 5334…
A unique way of thinking
An old, cynical adage holds that ‘if all you’ve got is a hammer, everything looks like a nail’. I remembered…
True to type
In Competition No. 3174 you were invited to write a poem in which each line begins with the letters A…
Johnson’s turnip bogle
At least in London, midwinter spring has not been entirely vanquished, and the trees are still a couple of strong…
