Youth. The innocence yet fearlessness of youth. We’ve all been there. Being completely humbled by a plain-speaking toddler, ...
Was Australia ‘invaded’ by the British? I previously answered this question in detail in a previous article here. However, ...
They say if you’re stopped on the side of the Birdsville Track, you’ll know when a car coming past is being driven by an ...
Great things happened this week. Donald Trump multitasked his way into office as the liberator of Western culture, and The ...
President of Argentina, Javier Milei, is having a ball at Davos. ‘The mental virus of Woke ideology is an epidemic which is ...
It is quite extraordinary that tiny-minded, useful idiot activism has reached the point where anti-Australia Day radicals ...
As with so much of the rest of the Western world, Australians are demanded to ‘reflect, respect, and celebrate’ on their national holiday. Even if couched in the soft language of human ...
Attempting to sell one of my ‘world’s best ferry designs’ in the 1990s to a local but prominent ferry company, the unhappy manager, known as GF, eyed me suspiciously. ‘You were here before trying ...
I’m walking down the street on a weekday morning, heading for the shops to do some banking and check the post box, when I see a couple approaching from a distance. I am already anticipating how I ...
The French sociologist Alain Touraine coined the term ‘post-industrial society’ in 1969. By the 1980s it had become shorthand ...
A paradox of art history: to understand the artists of the past, it helps to study how, and where, they conceived of the ...
When José Saramago denounced the Bible as a ‘catalogue of cruelties’ at the launch of his novel Cain in 2009, the response ...