I’m inclined to think the Greens could do more damage to the party they help to victory, given the price they will seek if they hold the balance of power through accumulation of Senate seats.

One of my daughters recalled the other day a practical […]

The echoes seem to reverberate louder and longer when you […]

One of the most revelatory anecdotes in William Manchester’s intimate […]

Helen Trinca, editor of the Australian’s weekend magazine, made the […]

The Sydney Morning Herald staged a race recently over 15.5 kilometres from an outer suburb to the city centre, between six reporters travelling respectively by train, bus, car, bicycle, scooter and on foot. The scooter rider made it through morning peak traffic in twenty-five minutes, the cyclist in thirty-two, the motorist in thirty-seven, the train traveller in an hour and twelve minutes, the bus rider in an hour and fourteen minutes and the jogger (who got lost briefly) in an hour and twenty minutes.

One morning when I was twelve my father woke me […]

THE LAST MAN to get away with being funny about […]

SLIPPED INTO AUSTRALIA without fanfare three years ago and unobtrusively […]