Still Life With Cat

Here's a little puzzle for people who habitually read literary journalism, especially in Australia. What is quite unusual about this p...

Opposition environment spokesman Greg Hunt says the campaign would be a misuse of taxpayer funds. "This announcement adds insult to i...

Long time no post once more, as I am balancing the meeting of deadlines with the managing of health Ishews. If you ever find yourself with t...

But look on the bright side, there's a cracker of a dystopian novel to be written about it .

Whenever Julia Gillard takes a different position on something from the position on it that she took some time in the past, Tony Abbott and ...

It's a beautiful thing.

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 ...

My dad, who turned 84 in February , has finally got himself a hearing aid, with the, erm, aid of Vets' Affairs. His 1944-46 stint trundl...

Ben Aaronovitch (b. 1964) is a London-born, London-based novelist and screenwriter who has worked on, among other things, Doctor Who . He ha...

British journalist John Grimond in The Economist has, like Bill Bryson, swept into Australia for five or six weeks and taken it upon himse...

I don't use the word 'evil' much. Actually I try not to use it at all. But sometimes there just isn't any other word that w...

1) Had a birthday a week or two back. I am completely the wrong age to welcome birthdays. 2) Since I neither am nor have a mother, Mother...

I don't usually even send on those emails that do the rounds. But I've just received one I like so much I thought it belonged here. ...

... then you obviously haven't seen the subject line of today's online update of The Age that just arrived in my mailbox: Nixon, ...

Retired police officer Meg McGowan, on the 'Australians Against Child Beauty Pageants' Facebook page (my emphasis): I am a retired...

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 ...

... is that when toxic fuckwittery and mindless, destructive, dangerous shite like American-style "beauty" pageants (ie competiti...

Can someone out there more clued-up than I in the ways of psychoanalysis give me some sort of explanation of the hysterical hype about The K...

Last night on 7.30 , Lindsay Tanner broke the hearts all over again of people who couldn't for the life of them understand, back in 2003...