First Tuesday – mixed response

When the First Tuesday Book Club on abc.net.au reviewed “The Unknown Terrorist”, the book didn’t come off so well. Marieke…

Art of Suspicion

Hasan Elahi – the Visible Man – found himself on the wrong side of federal government agencies. “Where were you…

Latest Auzzie Fashion – Burqini

Enough reacting to the desperate and vicious attitudes of media commentators! .. here’s some good news. Unfortunately i missed the…

beware of crocodiles

Delightful friends, i gotta say that .. That infamously strange hotel experience was not the sum of my travel time…

From a "Provocative Interloper"

More from the media: book reviewer Rosemary Sorenson, writing in the Weekend Australian Review (02 dec), reckons that it (that…

Do the Motionless, Yah

Do the Nut Bush. Do the Funky Gibbon. Do the Expressive Chicken. Yah! Or .. Do the Motionless Standstill.It’s the…

Been Bolted !!

Other online comments have included Andrew Bolt’s suggestion: that any hotel ejecting a reader of Flanagan’s novel is a sane…

a good hose down

Big it up for the remarkable Paul Keating (on abc world today), who never fails to produce a juicy metaphor….

Catch up: the story so far

If you’ve just tuned in, i’ve been writing because my story appeared in newspapers around Australia (and Europe): cairns, brisbane,…

Fingerprint those foreigners

Stating its reasons as public safety, the Japanese government is passing legislation to enforce fingerprinting for all foreigners. Vegetable Japan…