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One Perfect Day
I guess everyone has days like this from time to time. Utterly perfect days, when everything falls into place, where expectation meets denouement, and …
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TV news ain’t news.
Many years ago, an acquaintance of mine opined that the reality program, Survivor, was the best television show ever made. I didn’t share her …
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From Roseanne to Hanson, a real week of idiocy
Without getting in to the ghastly post-surgery details, I have been sitting and watching the world from behind closed doors with my new bladder, …
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Will this be the end of the Adolf Hitler conspiracy theories?
Adolf Hitler is dead. That’s not really news but in the news this week, a group of French forensic pathologists led by Professor Philippe …
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Royal wedding: Why Australians will be fixed to their screens
If you grow weary of the inescapable wall-to-wall coverage of the royal wedding, just imagine what the bride and groom are going through. I …
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Denis Ryan has a win at last
Denis Ryan has had a busy time of it. On the 86-year-old former cop’s call list this morning was the Washington Post, the BBC and …
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Kim Beazley takes the drinks trolley ahead of principle
The arrival of the Prince Charles on Australian soil, the opening of the Commonwealth Games and the appointment of Kim Beazley as Governor of …
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The only Newspoll that matters for Turnbull is the thirtieth
Poor Malcolm Turnbull, caught in a trap, a web, a snare, ambushed and assailed, boxed in and brutishly bushwhacked by Malcolm Turnbull. Malcolm Turnbull …
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It ain’t Lance Armstrong at the Tour de France, folks
What’s the difference between South African, Indian, English and Australian cricket? When a South African player, Faf du Plessis, gets nicked for ball tampering …
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Greens Senator Lee Rhiannon’s fruity version of facts
I have a few kangaroos loose in my top paddock. That’s not supposed to be a metaphor for a loose grip on sanity although …