Still Life With Cat

Michelle Grattan's piece in the Age today is not only disingenuous but even perhaps a tad hypocritical, reporting today from well up i...

The lovely Greta Bradman, granddaughter of Sir Donald.

When people say 'So-And-So had a good start in life,' they usually mean that she or he was born equipped with silver spoon. I can...

What are the odds of reading two new novels in 24 hours that both reference this painting, I wonder. But having done so, I felt compelled t...

I'd say RIP, but she doesn't look to me at all like the kind of person who'd have any interest in resting in peace, not even at...

The Good: NewSouth Books who have just sent me my advance author copies of Adelaide , which were waiting for me tonight when I got home...

"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 .