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Losing objectivity, surrendering integrity
Image: The Australian
Something's been iffy about Australian…

Happy birthday, Keni, and keep 'em coming
Been hearing a mountain of stories lately about sick kids, hard-pressed…

Crusades and Richard's lying heart
Coeur de Lion
The Journals of Richard the Lionheart
By…

High-flying jungle bungle just bananas
Took a while but I finally figured out who was responsible, thanks…

Ingenious boardwalk marks Indigenous heritage
A sleek floating boardwalk and lookout on a rocky knoll at developer…

Mick's got the mail on heritage post boxes
They’ve been handsome sturdy fixtures of the Australian social…

Philistines at the gate
It’s tough seeing Australia’s rich legacy of built heritage…

Parmi punters prey in global gastro war
So the Aussie national dish, our most popular culinary go-to,…

History-mystery repeats itself
The Vanishing Place, by Zoe Rankin, Hachette
Okay, you emerge…

Little art of murder
Odd, the things that can come your way unexpectedly. A late aunt…

Truth, reality and other fictions
Hard to watch, hear or read anything of politics without thinking…

Van Walker: Healing Descent
God awful how so many musicians were chewed up and spat out by…

Life’s a Surf Coast beach and then some
Summer’s here and it’s time to get your beach on. Whether…

Flying kangaroos loose in the top paddock
Couldn’t help being reminded of Maynard G. Krebs, the hapless…

Bushwhacked by the jungle … again
Nothing quite like throwing yourself to the not-so-gentle vicissitudes…

A dying art at Warrock
Art takes a never-ending variety of guises. Given…

Island of the gods, guardians and peripatetic primates
Peculiar pre-match entertainment for a Cats-Tigers clash when…

Best read with a red ... or maybe not
Review: A Mapmaker's Dream
by James Cowan
Fra Mauro is a…

A meteoric struggle of wills
Two brash colonial scientists jostle for possession of an astonishing…

Roadtripping and stumbling every step of the way ...
Dateline: April 2024, Cabbage Tree Creek: 37.6526° S, 148.8172°…
