Still Life With Cat

"In the end, 'Potter' may go down as the most sexist story ever told." — Andrea Peyser Yes! Never mind Susanna and the ...

Dear Telstra, American Express, etc etc, You know when you get some young minion to ring me up and try, under the guise of doing me a serv...

The national broadcaster has apparently produced an allegedly comic mini-series , to be aired later this year, about the Prime Minister'...

As here : Margaret Thatcher earned her 'Ditch The Bitch' placards in 1971, when as education minister she abolished free school mil...

From The Age online this morning : An IT consultant challenged Mr Abbott over bagging climate scientists and economists, asking: 'Who...

So, hands up who recognised the lovely and talented Ciarán Hinds, aka Captain Wentworth in the most excellent movie version of Persuasion i...

The [carbon] tax, after all, was not on people, but on 500 high-polluting companies. The compensation was to guard against costs those compa...

Well. Today I went to Hutt Street on a follow-up visit to the nice surgeon who removed my gall bladder and, while he was in there, (gulp) bi...

The opening sentence of Virginia Woolf's classic essay on this subject says it all, really: Consider how common illness is, how treme...

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...