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Anzac Day, and a nation turns its eyes upon something, anything, that gives it reason to believe in an identity that is both heroic and enduring. A century ago, WWI was entering its last six months, after four years of catastrophic death and destruction, and a French village, Villers-Bretonneux, was reclaimed by Australian soldiers from
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Pity the sand. There’s so many lines drawn into it that it is the Etch A Sketch for modern morals. It doesn’t matter the field of human emotion or the arena of conflict, there it is: the sand and the line. It is universal in concept and local in aspect. It is, in its metaphoric
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I do think, on the information that I’ve seen, people do need help and they need help from a civilised country like ours. Thus spoke Zarathustra, sorry Peter Dutton, ubermensch of the nation’s home affairs. The minister was speaking of the plight of white farmers in South Africa. His department of immigration, border protection, national
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“President Trump isn’t doing this for theatre. He’s going to solve a problem” – Then CIA Director Mike Pompeo (now US Secretary of State). A summit between US President Donald Trump and North Korea’s Kim Jong-un is gathering speed. However, Daily Review has acquired the transcript of a meeting between the two men, hidden in plain
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But piece by piece we lose control You break your heart You lose your soul They give their word and we give our trust Until we stand On fields of dust. First World Problem, Blair Dunlop Some singer-songwriters grab your attention from the first note you hear, from the first song, from the first album.
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I Wish the Wars Were All Over is the last song on Joan Baez’s new album Whistle Down the Wind. It is a lament from a woman to her lover, gone to war in another country, a future unknown, a present bereft. “My billy has left to fight for a king/and I wish the wars
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It’s not easy being a stable genius. People might think with an intellect such as Donald Trump’s it is easy to maintain, but as the mouse on the wheel inside his head I have to it spinning every minute of every hour of every day of every week to enable that genius to operate at
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We are five million strong. We are only a small part of a larger whole. We are brothers in arms, more than 300 million. You cannot destroy all of us. You have taken us into your lives. You cradle us in your arms. Yet we feel nothing. How we are used is all the same
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Now that Donald Trump has decreed that America shall have a military parade unlike any seen throughout history. It can only be a matter of time before Australia follows suit. We are, after all, the deputy sheriff. We may have Anzac Day, to which the US has Veterans Day on November 11 (our Remembrance Day
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Thus did Google on Thursday make its millions of search engine users aware of a relatively obscure (to the outside world) German painter. The Googleians illustrated this fact with a drawing of Paula Modersohn-Becker and of other scenes – a woman holding a baby, perhaps her own, among others – above the dialogue box (pictured above).
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