Get ready for 'campaign confusion'
Things are different since the great election overreach of 2019. You can sense the change. We need to get with…
Summer's worst political commentators...
So how is your summer going? Trousers off, melting ice cream on the car seat, screaming children in the back,…
Australian notes
The unbearable lightness of lying Ever since French President Emmanuel Macron told a credulous Australian media that he doesn’t think,…
Childhood experiments
Somebody once sang that the children are our future at a baseball match in New York but they never said anything about them being the collateral damage…
‘Strong Female Lead’ is weak on the truth
A documentary about Julia Gillard peddles fake news
Ben Eltham vs Craig Kelly: it’s never ok to dox
Yesterday on Twitter, Guardian Australian Arts writer Ben Eltham, possibly bored from writing about culture in a country that doesn’t…
Why I write or Hemingway’s chicken suit
Flat White lore is rich with stories of those who didn’t quite make it and those who did make it but we really wish hadn’t, and those who may make…
The Taliban take over The Age Green Guide
At a time when the world is going to hell and some perspective is desperately needed, thank God for the…
Aussie Life
The voiceover says new ABC series Ms Represented is all about Australian women in politics but really it’s all about…
Good Jon bad
Here’s an old writers trick that doesn’t involve moving to Tunisia and becoming a dope fiend. If you don’t want to say…
Dan is back
Melburnians are on the verge of nervous breakdown
The great G7 jacket wars
It’s the G7 and as world leaders gather here’s the big question: who wore it better – Dr Jill and the psychobabble elder-care…
My daddy issues
Prince Harry wants to talk about his childhood and work out whom to blame. So do I. I grew-up in Mount Waverley and they really were…
Our Aussie contenders for the 2022 Oscars in full
It’s Academy Award time and the votes are in for best female black actor in a male Latino role. Meanwhile…
Magda versus the Morrisons – and more
On A Current Affair Magda Szubanski said it was ok for her to criticize Jenny Morrison because of the growing…
Aussie Life
I’m back from Sydney and just coming out of my drunken stupor – a 12-hour bender at a resuscitated Qantas…
Writers block
Was it Snoopy who said Being-A-Writer means never having to complete your novel? I’ve been thinking a lot about being…
Why everything ScoMo does is wrong in the left’s weird world
The political and cultural Left claim that when it comes to the big issues they are not-playing-politics. They say it all the time. But they are currently…
So what can we say about the Podium Poet?
So let’s talk about the poetry thing and the poet who read poetry at the inauguration. America’s National Youth Poet Laureate Amanda Gorman who recited the…
Not the death of democracy – not even close
Contrary to the aphorism and what you’re seeing in America, things don’t fall apart, the centre nearly always holds. Despite what you read democracy…
Dr Jill and the importance of being qualified
Dr Jill wants to be Dr Phil, that is the question: whether you are a wanker for calling yourself a Doctor when you’re…
The strange sexism of Anita Recount
Forget bonk ban. The real sex hang-ups — or more accurately — sexuality hang-ups seem to be from progressive types…
Death of a feminist
I have written before about Hot for Teacher. The Van Halen guitar rock megahit was a touchstone for cultural norms…
I don’t like Donald Trump, but don’t hate him enough to be fashionable
Just for the record because everything is on the record: I doubt I could ever vote for Donald Trump. My…
Biden-Harris, Harris-Biden: the epitome of post-truth politics
The endgame isn’t Donald Trump. With the Democratic Convention coronation complete and campaigning underway, It’s Biden-Harris; America’s Seinfeld ticket, a…
