Having read the comedic stylings of Rebecca Shaw in her lol piece on the SBS (Spitefully un-Balanced Service) website, “A day in the life of Scott Morrison if he actually faced the same bigotry as LGBTI people”,[1] News Weekly in awe-inspired humility offers the following parody (it being the sincerest form of flattery).[2] Jason (not…
Furphy falsified Sir, As usual Jeffry Babb (News Weekly, May 21, 2016) has produced a scholarly article on Arthur Calwell. However, I must dispute his belief that Jim Killen saved the Menzies government in the 1961 election. This furphy has been demolished by John Howard in chapter 13 of his The Menzies Era entitled “Saved…
FAITH, IRELAND AND EMPIRE: The Life of Patrick Joseph Clune CSSR, 1864–1935, Archbishop of Perth, Western Australia by Christopher Dowd OP St Paul’s Publications, Strathfield Paperback: 371pp Price: AUD$39.95 Reviewed by Michael E. Daniel In recent years biographies of several Australian Catholic prelates have been published. This excellent study of the life…
THE LIBERTARIAN ALTERNATIVE by Chris Berg Melbourne University Press, Carlton Paperback: 277 pages Price: AUD$32.99 Reviewed by Jeffry Babb Like the curate’s egg, most readers will find that this book is good, in parts. This phrase derives from a cartoon published in…
