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, …
News & Commentary When veterans affairs are Virgin on cultural overkill Warwick McFadyen The storm in the teacup that was the proposal by Virgin to publicly laud Australia’s war veterans with priority boarding …
Music, Recorded, Reviews Richard Thompson 13 Rivers album review: some flow faster than others Warwick McFadyen Six strings, two hands, metal, wood, electricity. Some performers flare out, one album, one book, one poem. Others become fixed …
News & Commentary Revealed: the novel prophesy starring Scott, Peter, Ralph and Jack Warwick McFadyen In a secondhand bookshop, a remarkable discovery has been made. An exercise book, yellow-paged and time-worn, would seem to be …
News & Commentary Rosencrantz and Guildenstern aren’t dead, just selling insurance Warwick McFadyen A park bench. It is spring, the earth is returning to life, a faint warmth can be felt in the …
News & Commentary Scott Morrison: Let Us Pray Warwick McFadyen Life is truly strange. One can be blissfully walking the dog when, out of the light blue of morning, a …
News & Commentary Peter Dutton’s au pair imperative Warwick McFadyen There’s a shortage of rain. There’s a shortage of public housing. There’s a shortage of hospital beds. But now, perhaps …
News & Commentary Dutton: What fresh hell can this be? Warwick McFadyen What fresh hell can this be? Ah Dorothy Parker, if only it were so. This is not a fresh hell …
News & Commentary The road to the far horizon, the way to the nation’s heart Warwick McFadyen The town in which you live on the fringe of the city has long receded into the distance, the familiar …
News & Commentary Turnbull’s dog-whistling Australian values Warwick McFadyen Claiming the high moral ground on what constitutes an Australian value is no more an exercise for social studies. Now …