Category: News & Commentary

Sam Walsh took on the reins as chairman of the Australia Council on July 1, the same week that his former employee, Stern Hu, was released from a Chinese jail after serving nine years for stealing commercial secrets and receiving bribes when he was a chief iron ore negotiator based in Shanghai for Rio Tinto during the mining boom. Stern

Greg Mackie OAM was responsible for me reading William Burroughs’ Junkie. I spent many hours in my twenties leafing through books in his Imprints Bookshop on Hindley Street while avoiding my university readings. Mackie is the founder and chairperson of the annual Adelaide Festival of Ideas, (AFOI) The theme of this year’s festival ‘Who’s at the

The most extraordinary single fact about the United States of America is that it was created by men (all those who got acknowledged were men) who labored for a few years over documents that described what the nation would hold dear, what its moral, ethical, and legal guidelines would be, and how it should work

The living come with grassy tread To read the gravestones on the hill; The graveyard draws the living still, But never anymore the dead.  In a Disused Graveyard, Robert Frost There was no gold here, on top or beneath this gnarl of earth. Yet below on the creek flats, it was everywhere, to be plucked, scraped,

For an entire week, your reporter has quietly mourned the death of media reason. Today, she faces attack by winter power bill and can maintain her reverent silence no minute more. Is it an act of great hypocrisy to recount, for cash, an act of media stupidity then come over all la-di-da about how no worker