Aussie life
When I wrote on this page recently about Alan Bond’s America’s Cup boxing kangaroo mascot being repurposed by the Australian…
Aussie life
It has become the standard practice of Australian property developers to decorate the hoardings around inner-city construction sites with photographs…
Aussie life
That alcohol-related death rates rose during the pandemic might be the least surprising announcement ever made by the Australian Bureau…
Aussie life
Australian manufacturers have long been obliged to alert consumers to health hazards. As soon as we found out that peanuts…
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Recent reports of a WA man being killed by a kangaroo have been syndicated by foreign news agencies for much…
Aussie life
‘I’d rather see a church burn,’ is my usual response to a glass of wine getting knocked over. So if…
Queening ‘til the end
If you were saddened to learn of the death of Queen Elizabeth II (and evidently very few people on the…
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Anthony Albanese’s republican sympathies were a matter of public record when a Voice to Parliament wasn’t even a whisper in…
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‘Why can’t a woman be more like a man? complains Henry Higgins in My Fair Lady, a musical whose title…
Aussie Life
I read in the Australian last week that the Queensland parliament is considering criminalising stealthing. And no, that’s not a…
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Sport has always played a big part in Australian life, but in the interests of diversity it would be wrong…
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Coined, as it was, by a dead white man whose oeuvre is considered one of the crowning achievements of Western…
Aussie life
It’s too soon to say whether President Biden’s response to the carnage in Tulsa, Uvalde and Buffalo (‘For God’s sake,…
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I have a confession to make. Despite voting for an Australian Republic in 1999, and despite making an ad arguing…
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I’m starting this column on the eve of the election, so you have me at a disadvantage. But not much…
Aussie life
Are conservative journalists more endangered than polar bears? Unlike the habitat of the world’s largest land carnivore, the landscape across…
