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ANZAC DAY - 2025

Lest We Forget.   It ought to be that simple. But it isn't.   What is it we need to remember? The loss of lives in war is a simple enough...

Gene Hackman (1930 - 2025)

To call Gene Hackman the consummate actor undersells him. He was extraordinary. Unable to rely on looks or even an everyman charm, he...

Space Invaders

Mars? According to the ABC's News website, Deputy Liberal leader Sussan Ley has compared the arrival of the First Fleet with Elon Musk's...

Jimmy Carter (1924 - 2024)

What a century. All obituaries risk hagiography, but in some cases, the thing that honours most truthfully is simplicity. Jimmy Carter...

My Joy

When I look beyond myself, my physical self, my self-tracked atoms my bagged, wet flesh and my well-worn bones, I see all directions and...

Let Biden be Biden

Never get into an argument with a zealot or a fool. Joe Biden would have done well to remember this in his really rather terrible debate...

TWO THOUSAND WORDS ABOUT GENDER

History is a narrative. He who weaves the threads of its story wields considerable power. And virtually without exception, it's been men...

REVIEW: World Party - Egyptology

Karl Wallinger died far too young. We know for certain that he had a great deal more music in him because he'd told us so. He was in the...

Why I go to Mass

The Gift of Divine Grace I am a Catholic, and I am at peace with this. It was not always so; theological certainties aren't easily...

New Year

New Year So! You've turned the page again, You look perplexed, my new-old friend. What once was now, has become then. It must be strange,...

Liffey

Liffey For Shane McGowan (1957 - 2023) Broken poet, glorious mess, Penny-whistle novelist, Dublin's Boy. Bellow at the sun, serenade the...

GAZA

I've resisted writing about the horrific situation in Gaza because of the difficulty of dispassionately examining any situation in which...

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