Simon Collins

Aussie life

9 March 2024 9:00 am

The Banksy retrospective which has been drawing modest crowds to the basement of Sydney Town Hall in recent weeks is…

Aussie life

24 February 2024 9:00 am

Surprisingly, perhaps, it was only 20 years after the Union flag was first raised in Sydney Cove that white Australians…

Aussie life

10 February 2024 9:00 am

At time of writing, we do not know whether there is any truth to the allegations which have been made…

Aussie life

27 January 2024 9:00 am

Move over, Errol Flynn. It took long enough, but as of last Tuesday you are no longer Tasmania’s most popular…

Aussie life

9 December 2023 9:00 am

While the donning of keffiyehs by actors at the end of a performance of the Sydney Theatre Company’s production of…

Aussie life

2 December 2023 9:00 am

Who can honestly say they’ve never contemplated murder? What red-blooded Australian can put their hand on their heart and swear…

Aussie life

18 November 2023 9:00 am

I’ve never been a fan of Gordon Ramsay. More prudie than foodie, perhaps, I’ve always believed that what comes out…

Aussie life

4 November 2023 9:00 am

Now that the referendum is behind us, we must start doing something about Australia’s burgeoning ICE problem. You wouldn’t know…

Aussie life

21 October 2023 9:00 am

Timing matters just as much in tragedy as it does in comedy. And it is important to remember that the…

Aussie life

7 October 2023 9:00 am

The death of actor David McCallum last week prompted me to google the theme music for The Man from U.N.C.L.E.,…

Aussie life

23 September 2023 9:00 am

There was a time when Australians prided themselves on their nose for bulls–t and for their willingness to call it…

Aussie life

9 September 2023 9:00 am

Presumably, you don’t get to become head of football’s governing body in a football-mad country like Spain without putting in…

Aussie life

26 August 2023 9:00 am

Holding dual Australian and UK citizenship is only problematic when both countries reach the final rounds of a major sporting…

Aussie life

12 August 2023 9:00 am

‘Senior moment’, being an affectionate descriptor for the kind of harmless temporary memory failure which presages more serious cognitive decline,…

Aussie life

15 July 2023 9:00 am

If British women’s rights activist Kellie-Jay Keen goes ahead with the defamation suit she is reportedly considering taking out against…

Clothing the gap

11 July 2023 5:30 am

An oft repeated argument for voting No to an Indigenous Voice is that it would be just the latest in…

Aussie life

1 July 2023 9:00 am

Amanda Stoker’s willingness to talk about her bottom has given David Van the distinction of becoming Australia’s first real subject…

Aussie life

17 June 2023 9:00 am

With the exception of two or three of our tastier fish species, I doubt if anything in Australia has taken…

Aussie life

3 June 2023 9:00 am

Imagine waking from a 50-year coma to find that the TV in your recovery room was permanently tuned to a…

Aussie life

20 May 2023 9:00 am

As the head of a dynasty which owes its wealth and influence to military aggression, white supremacy and colonial exploitation,…

Aussie life

6 May 2023 9:00 am

The Melbourne Comedy Festival’s continuing refusal to apologise for not closing this year’s festival with a tribute to its co-founder…

Aussie life

22 April 2023 9:00 am

‘Where did all the poof readers go?’ is not a question which would make it into many Australian publications. I…

Aussie life

8 April 2023 9:00 am

Australia’s greatest footy rivalries used to be strictly intra-code affairs – obvious examples being league’s State of Origin, union’s Bledisloe,…

Aussie life

25 March 2023 9:00 am

Two weeks after our Prime Minister told us he will be attending the coronation of Charles III we still don’t…

Aussie life

11 March 2023 9:00 am

The now universally acknowledged failure of vaccines and masks to reduce your chances of spreading, contracting or dying from Covid…