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1. Commander Hadfield comes back to Earth
(Weekly Email)
Hadfield used social media to bring space to the people in a way that has never been done before. What was it about him that reinvigorated public engagement with astronauts? Commander Chris Hadfield ...
Created on 13 May 2013
2. Government bad. Sovereign parasite good.
(Weekly Email)
Are you tired of obeying so-called “laws”? Do you want to be truly free? Are you more than slightly insane? Then declare yourself a FOTL and life will be just peachy. Not so peachy for the courts and councils ...
Created on 14 April 2013
3. Underpants Squid For PM
(September 2012)
I believe in the almighty power of the giant squid that lives in a golden cave in MacGillycuddy’s Reeks, painstakingly fashioning underpants for humanity from its own ink-stained emanations. I believe ...
Created on 04 September 2012
4. Free Speech
(September 2012)
There’s been a lot of chatter lately about freedom of speech and how it’s apparently under attack. I see no evidence of any threat to free speech. Indeed, if there is a threat, it’s coming mainly from ...
Created on 04 September 2012
5. It’s Time to Call Bullshit on Clubs Australia
(Politics)
Australia. The sunburnt country; the lucky country. So lucky, in fact, that we’ve got wall-to-wall poker machines to take advantage of that luck. Because, as everyone knows, Aussies love to gamble. Lucky, ...
Created on 09 May 2011
6. The Circus is Back in Town
(Anecdotage)
As I write this, a lot of Australia is underwater. The people of Southeast Queensland have been all but swept to sea. Towns have disappeared, people lost and lives destroyed. Victoria, New South Wales, ...
Created on 20 January 2011
7. Editorial - August 2010
(Politics)
Good morning or afternoon or hangover, dear fans, and welcome to our Election Issue, twenty pages of information, opinion and, as always, shouting. We truly hope that, once you’ve digested it all, you’ll ...
Created on 15 August 2010
8. Editors Rant - June 2010
(Archive)
No matter how hard Kevin Rudd tries to lose the next election, the Coalition keep handing him big plates of gold. Abbott admitted to being, effectively, a compulsive liar. Joe Hockey delivered a budget ...
Created on 03 June 2010
9. What Happened to You Melbourne?
(Anecdotage)
You Used To Be Cool! I have been travelling a lot in peak hour lately, and I have been secretly surveying the driving habits of Melburnians everywhere. And, when I say everywhere I mean…well…the people ...
Created on 03 June 2010
10. Enid Blyton
(Reviews)
Enid Blyton was born in August, 1897, the eldest daughter of an adoring father and humourless, resentful mother. Her early years she remembered as being idyllic, filled with rambling walks with her nature-loving ...
Created on 01 April 2010
11. Sport December 2009
(Archive)
Well there I was at the end of the football season bemoaning the fact that there was no sport for me to yell about. A half-dead West Indies is on the way for a moribund cricket season, the Spring Carnival ...
Created on 28 November 2009
12. Editors Rant - Oct 2009
(Archive)
Here at The Tribune we save money where we can; hence, the printed version comes to you courtesy of a $6000 printer we picked up (and almost dropped off the back of a rental truck) for $150. Hence, we ...
Created on 02 October 2009
13. Four Teeth Now
(Archive)
Four teeth now; you’ve got four teeth. Soon enough you’ll be walking without the couch for assistance, and you’ll be calling out “DAAAAD!!” for another story, another blanket and more toys. I’m old ...
Created on 31 July 2009
14. To Die or Not To Die
(Archive)
Sadly, dear readers, the Tribune is not yet making the kind of profit that will pay the rent, the school fees and the upkeep on Justin’s Star Trek memorabilia collection. So I have a job out there in the ...
Created on 30 May 2009
15. Presidential Pets
(Archive)
Most US presidents have kept pets - and not just busty interns who can’t keep their mouths shut. Barack Obama has promised his daughters that they can get a dog; their choice slightly narrowed by the allergies ...
Created on 18 April 2009
16. Pets… Hmmm...
(Archive)
The children were screaming. The girls were hysterical with laughter, the boy was letting out howls of horror that came from the depths of his soul. This is not right, we thought, it’s usually maniacal ...
Created on 16 April 2009
17. Our Celebrity Adventures
(Archive)
As regular readers of this epistle may know, we have several pets. Sadly, the suicidal fish finally managed to put an end to its existence last month and was buried in the garden - for a while anyway. ...
Created on 16 April 2009
18. True Love in the Toilet
(Archive)
I was deeply engrossed in an Alice Munro short story about an affair that had gone on too long and had begun to sour into a relationship when I heard my husband’s muffled voice, “Oh no! Oh shit!” followed ...
Created on 16 April 2009
19. Editors Rant - Pets
(Archive)
PJ O’Rourke tells a story about when he first moved into New York. A local said to him “Don’t believe it when people say heroin’s bad for you – just look at all the 90-pound junkies carrying air conditioners ...
Created on 16 April 2009
20. Conversations in a Schoolyard
(Archive)
Very very annoying morning. Husband, children, self and dogs all pounding around house, anxiously searching for shoes. Finally piled everyone in car and clanked off to start day. Angry yelling from ...
Created on 24 February 2009

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