Still Life With Cat

The Hon. Mike Rann, Premier of South Australia The Hon. Jack Snelling, Minister for Employment, Training and Further Education The Hon. Ja...

There's a Facebook page, though it appears to have been abandoned for some months now, called "Hey, my name is ..." "Don...

You know you're truly, madly, deeply mired in domesticity when in spite of the fact that you have to meet a weekly deadline, grade and w...

The announcement that Australian Army facilities near Woodside in the Adelaide Hills are to be upgraded to house up to 400 asylum seekers st...

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

If ever you were tempted to think that women in Australia or indeed in the West generally had finally gained some sort of equality in public...

When Bob Dylan was asked on American radio if he had been surprised by the success of Blood on the Tracks , he said, after a pause, that he ...

He was one of those miserable men of about twenty-eight, which is a very bad age to be in authority, too old to be generous and too young to...

 Margaret Simons has a must-read post up at The Content Makers on the ethics of journalist James Massola's outing in The Australian of...

In what parallel universe does it qualify as "news" that the Prime Minister and the Governor-General didn't go to church? C...

Long time no blog Cos I'm sick as a dog *cough* *snuffle* *moan* Normal services will be resumed eventually.

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...

Finished this week's copy with time to spare; lots of good ideas for the statue-of-Colonel-Light chapter of the Adelaide book that I...

Founder of the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre, Kon Karapanagiotidis, blogging at the Wheeler Centre (where you can read the whole thing), ma...

I've been trying intermittently to become an official organ donor for nigh on twenty years. Anyone who watched the 7.30 Report last nig...

Yes, it's Agony Corner. I haven't even been asked a question, I just feel like dispensing some good advice. I don't know what ...

The aircon service man came when he said he was going to, serviced the units without incident, said the whole system was in excellent shape,...

Listening to first Tony Windsor and then Rob Oakeshott deliver their verdicts in this afternoon's press conference was a really interest...

Waiting around to see who won the election has been edifying. Half the country must surely be better educated in the nature of the Westminst...