Still Life With Cat

Opposition environment spokesman Greg Hunt says the campaign would be a misuse of taxpayer funds. "This announcement adds insult to i...

This is a brief, spontaneous and miscellaneous post written only because I have just noticed that the number of posts here is currently 666,...

I see the addiction to alliteration persists when people are trying to dream up catchy titles. The meeja seems particularly addicted to putt...

This is as close to rage meltdown as I think I've ever seen the Prime Minister come, which is to say not very, but you can see it churn...

The ABC's Annabel Crabb published a long, informative, entertaining piece at The Drum the other day, characteristically witty and meaty...

Some dot points arising from the last 24 hours: The Miles Franklin Literary Award is for a certain kind of novel. The criteria include spec...

Can anyone familiar with PR and/or media training please explain to me the reasoning behind advising pollies (for surely they must have been...

Okay, so this Spooner cartoon is, in its way, very funny. I particularly like the poignancy of the dead pot plant. But Jesus H.Q. Christ ...

Reading my emailed online Age this morning I was a bit shocked to see at the top of the Top Stories the headline 'Praying for twins Tri...

So when I got home this afternoon from fifteen rounds with a sibling -- the ferocious upfront one, all teeth and claws all the time, and no ...

Life for most thinking people is a daily battle of the various principles, large or small, that for one reason or another are mutually exclu...