If you’re a Tribune fan (and we guess you must be since you’re reading this and if you’re not reading this then we suggest you go out and grab a copy now), there’s a good chance you’re on Twitter. You may have picked up, shortly after our January issue hit…
First of all, let me make it very clear: I do not have a problem with science. Secondly, let me make it even clearer: I have a problem with science. It would seem that today science has taken over all aspects of our society: industry, government, even the medical establishment;…
Defence of the Fertility Control Clinic The front gate of the Fertility Control Clinic in East Melbourne is a frontline of the struggle over life and death rights in Melbourne. A group of Catholic protestors (the Helpers of God’s Precious Infants) meet there at 7:30am, six days a week, to…
I never used to drive my car. It sat outside my house, different random parts either rusting or drying out depending on their orientation, the windscreen collecting dust, leaves, and at one point a mistakenly-applied-by-council ‘abandoned car’ sticker. Each year, registration loomed like a shadowy, expensive ogre, rendered marginally bearable…
In the last six weeks of 2011, I attended six weddings. Week after week I found myself donning a suit to spend the day eating, drinking, making merry and dispensing presents like it was Christmas. And then I did it all over again, because it actually was Christmas. Well, except…
The taxi driver in Maui picked the accent straight away. “Look out!” he said. “The Aussies are here!” Turns out he used to date a woman from Australia. She used to bring tour groups to Hawaii and when she did, she brought a leg of lamb for him. “She’d drop…
I imagine most of you reading this have a blog or your own little website, a place where you’ve invested time and energy so as to carve out your own little corner of the web. You’ve probably bought your own domain name, or have a cool name on tumblr and…
As a full-time technology journalist who has specialised in the critiquing of video games for over a decade, you’d be amazed how many times I’ve been told that I have “every teenage boy’s ultimate dream job”. What amazes me more is the fact that I haven’t rammed a joystick down…
I used to love watching acclaimed kitchen goddess, the luscious Nigella Lawson, when she first appeared on the small screen as the West’s primary exponent of food porn. By God she was sexy, I thought, and her defiance of the fashion imperative for women to starve ourselves so we’d look…
Soften The Fck Up is an initiative aimed at breaking down the “tough Aussie bloke” façade and getting men to open up to each other if they are depressed, worried or, as they put it, just feeling crap. On their website, they say, “We’re standing up to be counted. We’re…
In 1796 a very special and very dangerous kind of idiot was born. Smallpox was running rampant throughout Europe until a brilliant surgeon named Edward Jenner noticed something interesting. Victims of the less dangerous cowpox disease appeared immune to smallpox. He tested this theory by injecting an 8-year-old boy with…
Perhaps I should preface this article with “I’m not a scientist, but…”. A long time ago, people used to believe that it was necessary to cut up a cow or a slave to make sure the Sun came up each day, because the Sun was a ball of fire being…
Some people hold political affiliations with an almost religious fervour. Their political beliefs shape everything, from their world-view to where they buy their groceries. Almost every major decision is influenced in some way by their political beliefs. Along with their entrenched views often comes something far more concerning: the complete…
Oh yes, I’m the great pretender Adrift in a world of my own I play the game but to my real shame You’ve left me to dream all alone They may have recorded this over fifty years ago but The Platters knew what they were talking about. Why bother actually…
Anyone who’s ever been in a car with children will know that when they’re not crying, pulling each other’s hair or stuffing bit of fruit behind the car seats, they’re asking endless, unanswerable questions. Why is that cup blue? Why is France so far away? How long is it since…
Most of us have memories of staying in a caravan park. Whether it was as kids, parents, schoolies or backpackers, the caravan park is something that we share as a common piece of our past. Some of the memories are fantastic, like your first kiss on a summer holiday to…
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