|
Ian WardenWA Today |
Sensitive readers, does every glimpse and mention in the news of Donald Trump make your flesh creep, turn your stomach, deepen your fear and loathing...
The Canberra Liberals have made the pulse-quickening promise that if swept to power in October's ACT election they will give each and every Canberra...
The longer one lives in tranquil and tranquilizing Canberra, the more startling and thrilling Sydney seems for a Canberran when he or she visits that...
What does it say about Canberra and Canberrans that when a prominent Queenslander gibbers to the media that Canberra is "an awful place" so many...
Exposure to the finest art of the finest artists works improving, character-building wonders in us. Perhaps, then, exposure to the fine arts should...
I am 78 and one morning this week I was sitting at my computer reading news of the senile decay of US president Joe Biden, 81, when I discovered I'd...
"It's important to be amazed about absolutely everything." $0/ (min cost $0) Login or signup to continue reading - Terry Pratchett, beloved ...
Although we imagine our politicians are the most arrogant and egomaniacal of Australians (that's why we boo our prime ministers in the Rod Laver...
The chances of my ever going to prison seem slight, since, even if I am caught yet again vandalising Liberal Party election posters with my...
Happy, fortunate, thrice-blessed females of Australia! At last you have a role model of what true Australian womanhood should be (ever decoratively...
At courtside on the Friday afternoon of last week's excellent world-class Canberra International tennis tournament at Lyneham one thrilled to the...
"On recent estimates, the observable universe - the portion of the universe that we can detect through our telescopes - extends about 47 billion...
Canberra's serial thunderstorms of Christmas Day and Boxing Day (my substantial mansion seemed to tremble on its foundations as if built of blancmange...
"Luther maintained that without music, man is little more than a stone; but with music he can drive the Devil away." - John Eliot Gardiner in Bach:...
Yield not to Temptation For yielding is Sin. - Satan-combatting Christian hymn I can resist everything, except temptation. - Oscar Wilde ...
Mystical Lake George is brimmingly full at the moment and driving home to Canberra alongside its enigmatic expanse on Monday I was reminded of how,...
Just as youth is famously wasted on the young, is the right to vote wasted on voters? With the result of the Voice referendum reminding us of how...
We are one, and even though we're all sorts, Even though we're polyglot and cosmopolitan, We share a dream and sing with one voice "I am, you...
Just as the result of the Voice referendum has painted us a portrait of who and what Australians are, next year's ACT election result promises us a...
In the classic BBC Pete and Dud at the Art Gallery comedy sketch, the two mackintoshed friends feel that the bare bottoms in a Cezanne painting of...
Readers, if you have the blessing of a degree from a university and if you voted "yes" to the Voice, can you see an obvious connection between having...
Oh, the banality of democracy! Queueing to vote a heartfelt "yes" on Saturday October 14, my mind strayed, bitterly, to how my sensitive, intelligent,...
Friends, readers, Australians, lend me your imaginations and imagine this. What if every person who ever contemplated migration to Australia listened...
"To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you." C.S. Lewis "Always forgive your enemies;...
Although this looming Australian summer is now something to dread (more of this forecast dreadfulness later in this column) there are still some joys...
Much-thumbed, dog-eared, coffee-stained, tattered by so much use as a reference work, my copy of the Australian Electoral Commission's official...
As well as rallying and walking for a "yes" in October 14's referendum (this Sunday in Canberra and in other cities there are to be idealistic Walk...