I think we bring together an outstanding group of writers for you here at the Tribune. We’re proud of the work they do and proud that we can publish it. We look for writers who have more than just the ability to turn a catchy phrase; we want them to…
Let me say up front that as someone who has been ‘out’ as a lesbian for 27 years, I just don’t get this push for gay marriage. I don’t understand why it has become a headline issue in the push for equal human rights, especially when our rights in other…
Julia Gillard has problems but they are not the ones usually mentioned in the media. Her problem is not the way she replaced Kevin Rudd as leader, or that she ‘broke’ her ‘promise’ about a carbon tax (and yes, those terms are meant to be in scare quotes because I…
Brief from my editor: “How are things in your brain at the moment? Got any thoughts you’d like to throw together for us? Something political if you have it lying around...” Well, yes I do, I guess — I mean everything is political at some level, right? I mean if…
The asylum seeker debate has almost never been about the facts, it’s about fear. Most often it’s about baseless fears, cynically manipulated by politicians looking for traction and the mainstream media looking for linkbait and headlines. Having said that, there have been a number of pieces published in a variety…
Anyone who knows me knows I have always been a friend to the gay community. I regularly watch Glee, and once I listened to a Lady Gaga song. I even know someone who’s met a gay. I think. He may have said “Gary”. Not sure. Not important. Point is, I…
The Baillieu Government, like so many state governments around Australia, promotes a “tough on crime” agenda. The media happily tags along, creating a fear of youth driven crime waves that, according to any statistical analysis, simply doesn’t exist. It’s a gigantic rort perpetrated on an unwitting public who feel the…
And so, with the demise of 6.30 with George Negus, Australia’s dirtiest secret has been exposed. There’s no longer any point denying it, now the courageous programming innovation featuring the moustachioed one has come to an end. The evidence is clear: we’re a country of Philistines who couldn’t give two…
Henry II was a short, stocky, bad tempered ranga who married the wealthiest and most desirable heiress in Europe. At the height of his powers he liked to brag that his empire rivalled Charlemagne’s and yet he died alone, after losing a war against his own sons. Along the way…
There was a slight frisson of excitement amongst pundits last September when word got out that Labor left figures had vehemently argued in caucus against the Malaysia people-swap deal. Though some observers smirked (‘where has the Left been all this time?’), there was a sense that maybe the ‘party of…
The manager is standing over me as I peruse his lengthy cheese platter. ‘The one on the far end is especially piquant,’ he says. ‘Oh?’ ‘Oh yes. Especially,’ he says. I am about to make two decisions, but I think I’m only about to make one. ‘Can you tell me…
After 10 years of nurturing my hatred of John Howard, I should have been ecstatic at his defeat, I should still be dancing about it even now. I’m not, but thanks to him I understand a little better, why the Convoy of No Confidence/Occupy Things/ Talk Back trolls are so…
The “occupy” movement in Australia would be funny if it wasn’t so infuriating and ignorant. It’s a little solar system with a small sun of a genuine point, then orbiting socialism groups, anti-vaccination superstition, 9/11 “truthers” and every other conceivable wholegrain nutbar and the whole thing is a gajillion light…
In the last few weeks, I haven’t been sleeping so well. I wake up in the middle of the night, with an anxious feeling gnawing at the pit of my stomach. I lie in bed, trying to go back to sleep and breathing slowly and deeply to calm down and…
One of the things that makes me look forward to Spring is the accelerated rate at which my lawn will grow, meaning that there’ll be plenty of opportunities to mow the lawn. I didn’t always enjoy mowing the lawn, in fact for the first five or six years that we…
The mainstream media has been convulsed in an orgy of navel gazing over leadership speculation recently. Not just fuelling the stories, but actually creating them and then feverishly pulling them apart and putting them back together again - to the point where it overrides common sense and the actual events…
Whenever you hear the phrase “Australian Classical Music”, you get a variety of responses. “For the elites”, “old people listen to classical”. “Classical? Boring.” “Music Appreciation Classes”, “Keating liked that stuff, didn’t he?” Perhaps you hear names like Richard Gill, the Director of Education at the Sydney Symphony. He tells…
Given how early and how aggressively retailers put out their Christmas product it’s nothing short of a Christmas miracle that the studios don’t go overboard with seasonal cinematic spirit. But for those of us who do like to get festive, is Arthur Christmas in 3D going to cut it? That…
Some years ago, friends and I drove from Manhattan to Provincetown on Cape Cod in Massachusetts. We sampled the local lobster along the way — stopping off at the likes of ‘Clem and Ursies’ Diner for the infamous lobster roll of the region. We continued stuffing ourselves with these treats…
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