The Godfather: Peter Corris on AFL at the crossroads
There is talk of the AFL making changes to the rules of Australian football to make it a more interesting and watchable game. Something such is sorely needed....
Read MoreThere is talk of the AFL making changes to the rules of Australian football to make it a more interesting and watchable game. Something such is sorely needed....
Read MoreEvan Whitton, who died this week aged 90, was editor of the National Times when I worked at the paper in the late 1970s and early 1980s. The winner of five Walkley...
Read MoreI was exposed to poetry in primary school – Walter de la Mare, perhaps, and ‘My Country’ by Dorothea Mackellar almost certainly. The greatest impact was from the...
Read MoreI’ve just finished Sebastian Faulks’s take on PG Wodehouse, Jeeves and the Wedding Bells (2013). Taking up this kind of challenge … or perhaps accepting this kind of...
Read More‘Don’t be Ashamed of Your Age’ – country song by Willie Nelson The Biblical age of three score years and ten should only be of symbolic weight but sometimes, to me and...
Read MoreI’ve written before about conversations with taxi drivers, and I happened to meet a couple of interesting ones recently. On my way home in a taxi after one of my...
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