Life
Aussie life
In a provincial Victorian city a vast brooding monolith has recently obtruded itself into the ‘built environment’, usurping the church…
Language
As if the sheer horrors of the Hamas attacks on Israel weren’t bad enough, now someone has coined the expression…
Joe Biden’s dog is out of control
I was shocked to read about the behaviour of Joe Biden’s dog, Commander. According to a CNN report based on…
How I ran away to Italy
A quarter of a century ago I somehow managed to get out of Paris where I had haunted a cheap…
Aussie life
Surprisingly, perhaps, it was only 20 years after the Union flag was first raised in Sydney Cove that white Australians…
Language
Is the great old Aussie word ‘bloke’ an offensive word? The army thinks it is. Writing in the Daily Telegraph…
