Let me sketch you the Liberal wet dream.
There is no longer any way that Aboriginal communities in the Northern Territory can control access to their land. Indeed, it may be that keeping people out of the kitchen in a house on community land is now impossible – what kind of ownership is being trespassed?
Either way, [...]

Some responses to craziness:
Cast Iron Balcony has a good addition to the Aboriginal lands invasion.
The Maleny Times has a deftly daft take on the hysteria.
And Deltoid probes behind the S-bend on a Miranda Devine piece that had me awed beyond laughter.
Meanwhile, Mr Ringschott has a wee look at James Packer in his [...]

Taken between 1932 and 1934, when John Perkins was Minister for the Interior.
“I like the little girl in the centre of group, but if taken by anybody else, any of the others would do as long as they are strong.”
I get a terrible sense that we are marching back in time with the latest Howard [...]

When my partner wanted to name her daughter, she went back to the early records of the Sydney Hospital to find something euphonious, classic and unusual. My niece now has the same fore and middle names; my sister claims it was an accident but I bet she heard it and stashed it away.
But my [...]

Looking for laughter and irony, I keep bumping into those stories that would make yet another grim but uplifting feature film to run at Cannes.
The Americans raid a government orphanage in Iraq to rescue children tortured by administrators who are selling their bedding and food. The Iraqi government claims the Americans damaged the kids [...]

That is my idea of a good production still. It comes from Free Jimmy, one of the three feature-length winners at the Annecy Animation Festival which has just concluded in France.
It is one more example of the way that animation is moving towards the adult mainstream. Australia has a slew of great short form [...]

Just another one of those mean, mean stories about punishing good people in the US military.
Maj. Gen. Antonio M. Taguba, who investigated the Abu Ghraib insanity, has been forced to retire from the army.
In the process, he confirmed that Seymour Hersh was close to right when he went on his long, rambling meditation [...]

With the course I am teaching for Melbourne’s CAE on my mind, I have been thinking about blog promotion. These are the only rules I can come up with in the hunt for an audience.
1. Make sure you blog for your own pleasure.
2. Identify a community – knitting, ball bearing polishers, spider [...]

This is my kind of joke. So much so, I broke most of my picture-posting rules to put it up. The image comes from a grab-bag site with dozens of ludicrous accidents on it, many of which involve vehicles poking out of or into buildings through a hole in the wall. But all information about [...]

I think of time capsules as buried in the massy foundations of huge buildings, to be opened at the end of time by a bunch of radioactive baboons who have finally developed opposable thumbs.
But the good citizens of Tulsa, Oklahoma, had decidedly more mundane objectives when they set up a time capsule in 1957. [...]