Australian Arts
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When the Irish comedian Dylan Moran was interviewed on ABC radio last year as a precursor to his (now presumably…
Churchill
When I first arrived in Australia quarter of a century ago one of the many kind invitations I received was…
Culture wars
Forming groups to kill other groups over territory, resources or belief is so much a part of the human condition…
American road trip
Like a lot of Australians I look at what is happening in America with sad bemusement if not alarm. Over…
Australian arts
Back in my now rather distant days of regular residence in Britain, I listened regularly to a radio program called…
Victorian burglars
Spare a thought for Victorian burglars. Just when they thought they could go back to ransacking South Yarra mansions while…
Different words
If you’d been in our house during the Coon cheese debacle you would have heard me shouting at the TV:…
Language notes
One of the most intriguing expressions to come out of the pandemic so far is ‘deep cleaning’. We read that…
Mystery portrait
Shortly after moving to Manhattan in the noughties I was strolling through the West Village when I came across a…
Relief
Recently I touched on the subject of evaluating works of art prompted by what seemed to me rather an empty…
