The Godfather: Peter Corris on turning 70
‘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 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 MoreThe worst review I ever got was back in my academic days. My MA thesis, Aborigines and Europeans in Western Victoria from First Contact to 1860, a typically cumbersome...
Read MoreActor Bill Hunter had come off a run of three highly successful films – Strictly Ballroom (1992), Muriel’s Wedding (1994) and Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (1994) –...
Read MoreThis is my 80th column for the NRB and time to reflect on the experience of column writing. I’ve had a somewhat similar gig once before – as a TV columnist for the...
Read MorePublished next week, Dr Philip Nitschke’s autobiography Damned If I Do (Melbourne University Press) represents my third attempt to collaborate with him.* Some years...
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