When established, well fed and fattened, a credible professional tires from the pursuit. One can get complacent, flatulently confident, self-assured. From that summit, the inner […]
It was good to hear that voice again. A voice of provoking interest that pitter patters, feline across a parquet, followed by the usual devastating […]
“Keep Ithaka always in your mind. Arriving there is where you’re destined for.” (P. Cavafy, trans. Edmund Keeley.) John Shipton, despite his size, glides with […]
With changes of presidential administrations, radical departures in policy are always exaggerated. Continuity remains, for the most part, a standard feature. It is precisely that […]
Sex, the late Gore Vidal astutely observed, is politics, and not merely from the vantage point of those who wish to police it. In the […]
While Australian journalists bonded and broke break in condemning national security legislation that some of them had previously supported, one figure was barely mentioned. Julian […]
The Abbott Government’s gradual destruction of our civil liberties is not something we should be taking lightly, writes Daniel Ellery. Almost 20 years ago, the […]
In my years of being old enough to know what an election campaign is, I cannot recall one so inundated with media tales of what […]
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