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°…
Run for your life ... or your wife
NOW girls, this isn't an opportunity comes along every day. In…
Shamrocking old Sandhurst
“Hey, rich bitch!” squawks the emaciated ice junkie skipping…
Magic, mischief and misdirection
Image: Scene from A Haunting in Venice, 20th Century Studios
Easily…
Postcards from the heartland ...
Long-standing joke in my family is that the many French letters…
Travel bites: Euphoric redemption in Bali
A downward dog-led economic recovery is probably not what you’d…
Big little changes to how you live
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ll know housing…
Unidentified anomalous role models
Above: A Mayan space traveller as suggested by Erich von Daniken…
You wouldn't be dead for quids
Above: cartoonist Johannes Leak's take on the week's revelations.
It's…
Travel Bites: Amazon chill, Lima vultures
Tambopata River, Puerto Maldonado, Peru
IT'S cool down in the…
When taking offence becomes offensive ...
Above: David Rowe's commentary in the Australian Financial Review
Have…
Bingeing on science faction
Ascension, by Nicholas Binge, Harper Collins
Pseudoscience…
Head-shrinking as a political art form ...
WATCHING Parliament the other night got me to thinking of the…
Trying to stop courting disaster
Never fail to be appalled by the time-worn old adage that you…
Fear and loathing in the court of the kangaroo
Remarkable to see the angst, stupidity, arrogance, and vengeful…
Justice denied in court of woke entitlement
It's a while back now but I can still well remember when I spent…
Rhyme and verse, and a little worse ...
Was a time when poetry was the last thing held any interest for…