Still Life With Cat

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It's okay , apparently, to compare the Prime Minister to Colonel Gaddafi, a name synonymous with derangement since my youth. But I must ...

A few posts back I got taken to task by a commenter for questioning the meaning of pronouncements by a Frenchwoman in full niqab. This comme...

As is my wont round this time of year, I've been looking back at the bloggy ghosts of Christmases Past, thinking back to what was happen...

From the increasingly indispensable Grog's Gamut : At the Liberal Party campaign launch, the big policy announcement was the plan to i...

The ever-quotable Bernard Keane in this morning's Crikey Campaign Special: Despite Kevin Rudd’s – by his recent standards – extravagan...

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

One of the many lovely things about reading fiction for a living is that it tends to make you an armchair (time-)traveller. Just in the last...

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

Memo to the Liberal Party: if you want to sell something to women, enlisting the aid of the aggressive, amoral, antifeminist dick-wavers in ...

From this morning's Age : Christian Democratic Party MP Fred Nile has succeeded in introducing a bill to ban the wearing of the burqa ...

Malcolm Fraser has left the Liberal Party , and poor Margaret Simons , who as the co-author of Fraser's political memoirs has known for ...

It was hard, particularly as the radio was on in the car on a shopping expedition so I only caught bits of it, to concentrate on what was ac...

I've never understood what on earth people are talking about (and there are many of them) when they call J. K. Rowling a 'bad writer...

Let me get this straight: Christine Nixon is to be crucified for taking an hour off, when she wasn't even rostered on, in order to have ...

The 'Say what?' feature at the Doonesbury site offers a daily sample of demented quotations from US public life. Here's today...

And, as the US holds its breath and the ABC website updates its news, Mr Obama clinched the votes of some of wavering Democrats this mornin...

Who beat Turnbull by half a toenail, 42-41, after the surprise elimination of Joe Hockey in the first vote. Holy sh*t. As it were. Of course...

As Channel Seven excitedly leads up and counts down to its revelations about Premier Mike Rann and his secret, married ex-girlfriend, an aff...

In the coming weeks you will be contacted by the Governor General’s office with regard to the various protocol, dress code etc associated wi...