Personal Reflections

I have just discovered Kempsey's Dunghutti-Ngaku Aboriginal Art Gallery (DNAAG) . This painting, Milky Way Dreaming - Turquoise is b...

Ursh, a Facebook friend of mine, collects old books, particularly anything to do with Australia and the Australian Military. Among her col...

Yesterday Neil Whitfield and Winton Bates came to lunch, the first time Winton and I had met for a long time. Winton on the left, Neil rig...

Yesterday's post ( Will PM Gillard win the next election? And possibly why ) drew a comment pointing to the latest poll showing an appar...

Neil Whitfield's Poetic is a review of the DVD A Poet’s Guide to Britain (BBC Four 2009) . It's obviously an interesting program. Wh...

At the end of May, the ALR blog carried an affectionate celebration of the work of Australian writer Randolph Stow who had just died in Eng...

Too much serious political stuff recently on this blog, at least for me! Just at the moment I am wrestling with one of my periodic topics,...

Back from Armidale Sunday. It was too difficult to post while I was away. Then yesterday a fair bit of wheel spinning and catching up. I r...

In a piece I wrote earlier in the week, Australian History and the art of Herbert Badham , I referred to the conflicting perceptions of Bern...

Rereading Neil's Friday poem post on Henry Lawson's Faces in the Street and especially the poem itself as well as my initial respo...

It's late, and I must to bed. But I could not resist a short post. I see that Neil ( Ninglun ) Whitfield has selected a poem by Henry La...

Each Friday Neil ( Ninglun ) writes about an Australian poem or poems. I have fallen into the habit of writing a companion piece where I kn...

Neil ( Ninglun's ) Friday Australian poem was Judith Wright's South of My Days . I love this poem. I did not want to repeat Neil...

Keeping Buzo flowing The marvellous playwright and king of tautology, Alex Buzo , who died last year, was a firm R&M favourite. So it i...

Earlier this month I mused about the apparent decline in interest in Australian literature. Neil ( Ninglun ) took something of an opposing ...

For his second Friday poem , Neil ( Ninglun ) chose The Poor, Poor Country by John Shaw Neilson . Ouch! The poem does capture one element o...

Driving to work I listened a radio program about the decline in Australian literature. Apparently one of Australia's major universities ...