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By Andrew Klein   There I was at Oakleigh. An area that has a mixed community of Greek, Maltese and Asian families with plenty of coffee […]

I saw the following words on Facebook and noted that the author was unidentified. However, further perusal revealed that they were highly sage in content. […]

By Andrew Klein   Light reading from a rather miffed old fart Buying a car is an expensive challenge at the best of times. These days […]

(Author’s note: No doubt we all hope that this never comes to pass, and that wiser heads manage to prevail) The Flowers of Empire They’ll […]

By Callen Sorensen Karklis   All Unions Should and Do Matter! Lessons from pandemic times The Covid-19 pandemic, recession, and the Ukraine oil crisis caught us […]

By Keith Antonysen   Profit is of far more importance than the wellbeing of individuals, communities and countries it would seem, displayed by ignoring the need […]

By Jane Salmon   Midnight Oil’s historic last gig was marked by the attendance of Anthony Albanese. Band member Rob Hirst chose a particular t-shirt to […]

If you are anything like me you will be confused as to whether you actually have a public holiday on Monday so I’ve looked into […]

A Tribute to our Late Queen Liz, with Post-Colonial Afterthoughts By Loz Lawrey   As my tremulous fingers tickle my laptop keyboard, late this night […]

1 Here are a few jaw-droppers that are guaranteed to shock you. They are not of my pen, although I have written about many of them. […]

We only have one planet! And we each have only one life! The vast majority of the current world’s human population is struggling to survive […]

Death, when it comes quickly for someone we love, tends to blindside us, and drag us out of our ordered complacency. Two women died this […]

Is it time for us Roundheads to arise? Surely our interminable fawning over a rich, entitled, and generally fucked-up royal family is way past the […]

By Graeme Taylor   As someone who voted “Yes” to a referendum in 1999, I’m pleased that it didn’t pass, not because I don’t think that […]

As we have been detained, reluctantly, at the late Queen’s bereavement party in the United Kingdom, the Heir Apparent has been staking out his own […]