Still Life With Cat

From his first novel Open City by Teju Cole, who is a Nigerian New Yorker and professional historian of early Netherlandish art: The cl...

Cast your mind back six years to Boxing Day 2004, when a tsunami caused 230,000 deaths in Indonesia, India, Sri Lanka, Thailand and ten othe...

(In the comments thread on the last post, the one about the federal government's plan to house asylum seekers at an army base near the l...

  ... think again . Tony Abbott, fearless would-be saviour of the good burghers of Woodside in the Adelaide Hills from the invasion of the...

The announcement that Australian Army facilities near Woodside in the Adelaide Hills are to be upgraded to house up to 400 asylum seekers st...

Founder of the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre, Kon Karapanagiotidis, blogging at the Wheeler Centre (where you can read the whole thing), ma...

*WARNING: LONG POST* Sad as it makes me to do so, and after a couple of unhappy days, I have to recommend this disturbing but persuasive p...

Whatever your plans for this evening may be, see if you can fit them around watching this program on SBS. As Philip Adams remarked last nig...