Beverley McArthur

Becoming cashless, but at what cost?

14 March 2024 2:00 am

Cash is no longer King. Long before the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) decided to remove the monarch from our…

Women, back to the barricades!

8 March 2024 11:15 am

International Women’s Day reminds us of the challenges, successes and milestones in our history, and the transformation that has enabled…

Eiffel power – France’s nuclear charge

16 February 2024 3:00 am

21 world leaders pledge to triple nuclear energy capacity from 2020 by 2050

The death of democracy? Victoria’s hush-hush Indigenous agreements

17 August 2023 6:00 am

Australians are being asked to open their hearts – to be generous – to vote ‘Yes’ to something greater than…

Just like a Danish pastry, Australia will become a flaky composition of treaties

22 July 2023 4:00 am

Here’s looking at you, Western Australia. Your Aboriginal Heritage Act has taken our national attention. We sit watching the unfolding of your…

Who Is The Victorian Of The Year?

6 July 2023 4:30 am

What sane Victorian didn’t do a double take when it was announced that the state’s former Chief Health Officer, Brett…

Forgetting the forgotten

27 June 2023 4:30 am

For a few days now, I have been thinking about the following sentences: ‘I do not believe that the real…

Cancelling our crucible day

29 May 2023 4:00 am

Just one day is all most people want. One day to celebrate Australia. One day to say, as Nino Culotta…

Victorians go hungry, Andrews gets bigger billboards

19 May 2023 12:47 pm

The Victorian Premier, Daniel Andrews, has been back from China for several weeks now. He’s still to advise what he…

Daniel Andrews’ greatest hits

22 April 2023 10:15 am

A broken record couldn’t be so familiar. In front of the cameras, the Victorian Premier’s song is now a chorus…

We are all Indigenous somewhere 

14 April 2023 4:00 am

The Voice is an anathema to a nation that believes in equality – a nation that does not look to…

Victimhood: the inversion of evolution by social stealth

11 March 2023 4:00 am

There’s an old saying: It’s not what happens to you that matters, it’s what you do about what happens that matters.…

A worm on a hook

15 February 2023 12:13 pm

For the record, I am energy agnostic. But I know this much: we need to drastically increase the supply of…

Messing with ‘the maths’

7 February 2023 5:00 am

It looks like Queensland is about to join most other states in Australia and allow people to change their sex…

A wabi-sabi nation

26 January 2023 1:00 am

Australia is a wabi-sabi nation: perfect in all its imperfections

Anything but Christianity! (Or mum and dad)

16 January 2023 7:00 am

News that ‘Christmas and Easter will not be celebrated in some childcare centres under new inclusion guidelines’ is, quite extraordinary.…

Victoria: divide and conquer

25 November 2022 9:51 am

The Victorian Premier leads by diversion, distraction, and division. He doesn’t answer journalists’ questions – diverting their attention to another…

Victoria: the Upper House matters

18 November 2022 4:00 am

Don’t look down on the Upper House Victorian voters have started numbering the boxes to determine who will run the…

The tribe has spoken

31 October 2022 6:00 am

Once upon a time, sport was an international language. A child kicking a soccer ball in Argentina could communicate in…

Dam or be damned!

20 October 2022 4:00 am

Australia: the land of droughts and flooding rains. Dorothea Mackellar was clearly not just a poet – but a handy…

The lost art of ‘truth-telling’

5 October 2022 4:00 am

It was a humbling experience to attend a function in Canberra’s old Parliament House recently to celebrate the 50th Anniversary…

Apologies are not enough

5 September 2022 4:00 am

Last week in the Parliament of Victoria, I called for Premier Daniel Andrews to apologise to a Ballarat mum who…

Danistan: extending or exiling an era

25 July 2022 10:00 am

An era is about to continue or end in Victoria. I preference the latter. Victorians are a measured lot and…

The person who should have resigned

1 July 2022 8:00 am

The resignation of four Victorian Ministers last Friday is too little, too late. That’s despite other Ministers previously stepping down…

Where are those 'money trees' when you need them?

6 May 2022 9:00 am

If only money could grow on trees. Victoria could plant a vast forest stretching to the horizon, visible from the…