Still Life With Cat

Take it away, Jonathan Green at The Drum : Every 48 hours or so Kevin pops up to be dignified yet deeply pathetic. The Prime Minister is c...

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 ...

Just had a text from my 83-year-old father, the latest in a longish exchange this morning, saying 'Point taken. xx' I had to stifle ...

I just scooped my copy of the July issue of The Monthly out of the mailbox and was mesmerised to see, on the cover, the words 'Rudd...

I think Tracy at Adelaide From Adelaide will excuse me for quoting her at such length: this is a paragraph that needs to be disseminated as...

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Is anyone else who's lucky enough to be able to be glued to the telly being utterly appalled by the journalists who keep asking those pr...

Abbott won. Not the same situation, I know, and we are almost certainly about to get our first female Prime Minister. But nobody knows wha...

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

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How is this even possible? Has Mal Brown been living in a big plastic bubble in an attic somewhere? Can he read? I love Australia to deat...

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

It's a question you have to ask yourself, when you read stuff like this , the gist of which is there in the opening sentences: THE fede...

There's some new stuff at the new blog .

No doubt every word of this report on David Marr's Quarterly Essay on Kevin Rudd is true; I don't know what the stance of the chil...

In recent weeks there has developed on Australian political blog Larvatus Prodeo a fairly predictable Thread of Doom about calls from that ...

The person who knows more about the military than anyone else I know was succinct tonight in his summary of the Israelis' attack on the ...

Loth to let the litblog thing go altogether, though one has tried and failed to keep it up at more than one site, one is having yet another ...

One of Joni MItchell's relatively early songs begins like this: Papa's faith is people Mama she believes in cleaning Papa's f...

Time to go to the optometrist. Yes yes I've been saying that for a while now; I was hoping to outlast the fashion for rectangular retro-...