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"How do I know what I think until I read what I write?" quipped an author many years ago - probably E.M. Forster. Or Flannery O'Connor. Login or...

Welcome to 2026! Another year, another column about pools! Let's make some changes in 2026. Think creatively, maybe? Login or signup to continue...

"Don't grow up! It's a trap!" - Insightful warning popular for youngsters' T-shirts Login or signup to continue reading Keep young and beautiful...

Australia's health system is in crisis and while the tensions over funding between state and territory leaders and the Commonwealth is at an...

Another summer, another round of devastation: homes lost, communities evacuated, lives upended. Just days after hundreds of homes were destroyed...

Time and again throughout Australian history migrants have been demonised during times of hardship. Login or signup to continue reading In recent...

The time may have come to retire the phrase "social coherence". One hardly ever heard of it a few years ago, but as Australian society seems to be...

I came back to work to find a letter on my desk from a reader distressed about the state of our public libraries: understaffed, underfunded and...

The self-described "Bush Legend" on TikTok, Facebook and Instagram is growing in popularity. Login or signup to continue reading These short and...

Language is a living thing. It grows, stretches and contracts. It can be ugly and crude or beautiful and heavy with nuance. A single word,...

We are so good at doing the same thing over and over again - and then failing to learn from the lessons. Login or signup to continue reading Here...

There's a reason use of the term "whiplash" took off in the 1960s. As car ownership increased so did the number of accidents. We began to take...

It is insulting to suggest that Randa Abdel-Fattah, the writer at the centre of the storm that led to the cancellation of Adelaide Writers Week,...

I'm torn. Is he a fopdoodle or a cockalorum? Or perhaps a snollygoster? Either way, his devoted gobemouches lap up his torrent of uglyography,...