Personal Reflections

I suppose it's inevitable but not universal that we become more reflective as we grow older. There is more to reflect on, good and bad, ...

Back in July 2011 in The end of Harry Potter I reflected on the last Harry Potter movie.  As eldest said at the time, "7 Books, 8 Film...

 After a turbulent few years, 2023 looks likely to follow the same pattern.  When President Putin launched his Special Military Operation in...

I am of an age to remember learning to sing God Save the King at primary school, to remember books and magazine articles on the royal family...

Rusden Street, Armidale. Playing with the house.  I hate moving. Growing up, we lived first at Rusden Street. The house no longer exists, la...

 While I haven't been writing here I haven't been totally distracted, just a tad preoccupied. Since I wrote  Can globalisation survi...

Malaysia has banned the export of chicken products from 1 June 2022, Introduced to protect Malaysian domestic supply, the ban covers live ...

Like many, I did not shed tears of blood over Labor's victory in the last Federal election. I felt that the Coalition Government had bec...

The last few years have been truly tumultuous. Drought was followed by fire and then covid and floods. Internationally, growing tensions wit...

While I claim to be a writer, my writing scope is really quite constrained, non fiction with an analytical and predominantly historical focu...

Cleaning the kitchen, I was listening to the Wharf Review on ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) Radio National. For those who don...

  Activist and actor Bob Maza addresses a protest at the Aboriginal Tent Embassy in front of Parliament House on July 30, 1972. Wikimedia Co...