Music, Recorded Remembering Nick Drake: English pastoral on six strings Warwick McFadyen Fifty years ago, a wind stirred, a slight breeze, a melodic air if you will. It rose and died. It …
News & Commentary Is poetry rising from its slumber? Warwick McFadyen “Poetry is resonating with people who are looking for understanding. It is a really good way to explore complex, difficult …
News & Commentary The egg in Australian politics: from Billy Hughes to Fraser Anning Warwick McFadyen Here’s to the 17-year-old teenager who slammed a raw egg into the head of Senator Fraser Anning at the weekend. …
News & Commentary Christchurch: Reality TV from hell Warwick McFadyen And so shock dies. This is the shock we used to know to define our state of being at witnessing …
News & Commentary PM Scott Morrison and his Merry Men of the Oversight Warwick McFadyen Alas and alack to be these three syllables: oversight. It’d be exhausting. The work never stops. You get hauled out of …
Music, Recorded Joni Mitchell at 75, still speaking power to the song Warwick McFadyen Four years ago Joni Mitchell’s voice fell silent to the world, the victim, with her body, of a brain aneurysm. …
News & Commentary Who’s as dumb as a rock? Warwick McFadyen How dumb is a rock? The time has come for an answer. We simply cannot have the US President, Donald …
News & Commentary Julia Banks: an assassination of the Liberal Party by words Warwick McFadyen “The gift of time in reflection has provided some clarity …” It reads as the opening words of a philosopher, …
News & Commentary Terror, love and the city within Warwick McFadyen Terror comes in waves. The first is the bullet, knife or bomb. Then, the maiming or the death. Then there …
News & Commentary The race that stopped the nation stopped the horse Warwick McFadyen The race that stopped the nation stopped the horse. So death becomes us, becomes even more part of our culture, …
