Still Life With Cat

... in three more sleeps.

Read this . Here's a taste. It is no small thing though, to be in water with such large creatures, face to face. For they are huge,...

This morning I was congratulating myself on having managed to save a bit of money over the last month or three. This afternoon I opened th...

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

Dude knows his stuff, is why. I was directed to this magnificently clear and thorough explanation of the current and possible future Canb...

Tim Dunlop has a sharply pointed post this morning on the subject of Tony Abbott's sudden discovery that he's actually quite sorry ...

The Age is reporting today that only one out of two Australian women in their 20s is having a regular pap smear test for cervical cancer. ...

“Naturally the common people don't want war; neither in Russia, nor in England, nor in America, nor in Germany. That is understood. Bu...

Australia, what have you done?

Never, ever underestimate how much it takes out of a person to endure protracted emotional strain, particularly if this involves self-restra...

One has been trying in these dark pre-election days to stay a bit cheerful and upbeat and not to visualise what the phrase 'Prime Minist...

If you're a Crikey reader you may have seen this already, but if not, have a look. I love actors, I just love them to death, and most ...

One of the things that occurred to me very forcefully several times during the nightmare morning I spent a few years ago in the Assemblies o...

The only possible explanation for Miranda Devine's latest shamefully dishonest naive rave (Rooty Hill was not in any way scripted or ri...

This is an election where slogans are really wearing thin. Abbott today tried to start talk about Labor’s “Great Big New Filter”, after wh...

Everyone already knows that the judgement of former Labor leader Mark Latham isn't super flash (though it's better than that of the ...

If anyone reading this happens to be teaching creative writing or running workshops or whatever, here's an article you might find useful...

As readers of this blog may have noticed, I'm quite a fan of Crikey reporter Bernard Keane and am enjoying his weekday reports in Crikey...