Personal Reflections

From time to time I have written about the changes that have been sweeping across Greater Sydney. These continue apace. Few parts of Sydne...

Unveiled on 25 February 1879, this statue in Sydney's Hyde Park of Captain James Cook has become the latest symbol in Australia...

This, the first of a series of short follow up posts I foreshadowed in Monday Forum - is modern political discourse just sound and fury sig...

So many things have been happening! I have had to tear up (can one use that word today in a more paperless word? Perhaps metaphorically) a n...

In many ways, I find the debate over gay marriage confused and confusing. Reading the media coverage, the commentary, the twitter feeds from...

The tag on this tweet from @MrJoshEarl on Twitter reads "Oh Barnaby Joyce, if only there were signs." The Joyce case has had ...

The sudden election of Jacinda Ardern as leader of the New Zealand Labour Party in place of  Andrew Little just weeks before the next gen...

I remain bogged down in other writing. My main post yesterday, The lessons and questions from Madjedbebe , was back on Australian prehisto...

Back in the seventies, the ABC had a series replaying Australian films from the industry's heyday prior to the Second World War. This...

The sudden resignation from the Australia Senate of first Scott Ludlum and then Larissa Waters has further opened a constitutional can o...

Australian Prime Minister Turnbull's speech in London accepting the Disraeli Prize has been much reported. It has also been much misrep...

Gregory Crewdson, Untitled, 2003 I hadn't heard of the American photographer Gregory Crewdson until I read CNN Nick Glass's piec...