by Patrick McStuttles Your Theobogan has on a black T-shirt, a tennis racquet held like a guitar and a sneer. Let’s rock! OK, it’s not my remit (come to think of it, what is my remit?) (what even is a remit?). News Wiggly covers music superbly with master muso David James. (Sorry, Dave, for bumbling…
by Brian Coman A REFLECTION ON THE MODERN POLITICAL ORDER IN THE WEST PART ONE OF TWO PARTS (You can read Part Two here) My title is not original, but comes from a translation of a poem by Vicente Huidobro, a Chilean poet from the early part of the 20th century. I have no idea…
by Lucy Sullivan It was with a feeling of relief that I read in Terri Kelleher’s article (News Weekly, August 10, 2019) that the United States, of all the apparently unlikely places, is making a move to control the untrammelled manufacture of “rights” of the last few decades in which only to lay claim to…
by Colin Teese For those Australians hoping for forward-looking, enlightened government economic programs to take us beyond covid19, the signs are not promising. Prime Minister Scott Morrison, and it would seem most of his cabinet, are looking backwards for inspiration as they struggle to develop policies for how economic Australia might look a year or…
