Still Life With Cat

The item on top of the work pile at the moment is a now very battered advance proof copy of a novel called The Little Shadows by the C...

Dear Telstra, American Express, etc etc, You know when you get some young minion to ring me up and try, under the guise of doing me a serv...

Because of reasons, I have perforce made the acquaintance in the last few weeks of a couple of bits of medical terminology with which I was ...

This morning I paid the princely sum of $10 for this new book: I was halfway to the bookshop counter, wallet at the ready, very possibly ...

WHEN THEY SAY It's supposed to be like that. WHAT THEY REALLY MEAN IS I don't feel like driving back to your house and fixing ...

"People have not got over her knifing of Kevin Rudd" No, and they won't, either, for as long as formerly respectable and res...

In the Senate, Labor's Doug Cameron said he was concerned about "the disintegration of the Liberal Party". "The barbarian...

Don't listen to this at work unless it's all right for you to be LOLing at your desk.

Kate Middleton in her official engagement interview said she was afraid she didn't 'know the ropes'. She's known William for...

You know, the Greens are - I like to call them, you know, a pack of wolves in koala costumes -- Janet Albrechtsen Now, presumably this is ...

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

Anyone following the entertaining shemozzle that Australian federal politics has recently become (usually it's a fairly boring shemozzle...

Back in 1994 I was writing a TV column for Eureka Street . Here's what I said about Laurie Oakes, whose weekly political interviews were...

One particularly detestable bit of all-purpose politics-and-public-service jargon is getting a good workout during this limp election campai...

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

It's been a week and a half since Julia Gillard became Prime Minister in what was, contrary to much of the hostile commentary and despit...

In all the endless masses of coverage of Andrew Johns' racist slur, Timana Tahu's dignified withdrawal, and all the other fallout in...

Is there some even more than usually sinister plot in the media to use language to confuse and discombobulate the populace? I refer, of cour...

I've just come home from brunch with friends down the posh end of town, and as I crossed the road to return to the car I became mesmeris...

Tony Abbott's argument against the formal acknowledgement of traditional owners at public gatherings is that it's 'tokenistic...