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Love hurts, love scars, love wounds and mars Login or signup to continue reading Any heart not strong enough To take a lot of pain, take a lot of...
For those of us investigating ways in which to survive the coming Trump presidency (and more specifically the daily, disgust-stoking news reporting of...
When the birds of the common koel species Eudynamys orientalis are not here with us in Canberra, are they perhaps on the moon? Login or signup to...
Australians all, how are we to explain the dismay, the horror that so many Australians are feeling and openly showing at the election of Donald Trump?...
Who is Saint Rita of Cascia and what is her special relevance to the Canberra of today, to the despairing Canberra Liberals and their despairing...
"In 1977 I shall be 142. I must begin to take on the dignities and gravities proper to that season of honourable senility which is on its way and...
The presence of King Charles and Queen Camilla in Canberra this week sent the mature-age mind foxtrotting back to 1983 when Charles visited Canberra...
The moon belongs to everyone Login or signup to continue reading The best things in life are free The stars belong to everyone They gleam...
All fun-loving, thrilled-by-politics Canberrans love the ways in which Canberra's thoroughfares are presently decorated by the portrait-corflutes of...
News-addicted readers, lend me your ears! Give me your advice! Login or signup to continue reading If you're quite unable to ignore the 24/7 coverage...
Like pet owners everywhere I have been trying to shield my companion animals from the ongoing news coverage following Trump's allegations that bad...
Just like the flowers that bloom in the spring (tra la), the corflute portrait posters of candidates in next month's ACT election have suddenly begun...
With October 19's ACT election looming, I am marvelling that I know less about the personality of Canberra Liberals' leader Elizabeth Lee than I know...
Hope is the thing with feathers Login or signup to continue reading That perches in the soul, And sings the tune without the words, And never...
Kamala Harris, in recent days sweeping onward and upward at the Democrats' rapturous jamboree in Chicago, seems well qualified to become the first...
If everything you see and hear in the news media about the disgusting Donald Trump turns your stomach and makes you despair (this columnist's...
Some of the inspirational things the French have done to adorn and celebrate their city for these splendiferous Olympic Games should, surely, be...
Cliché: a phrase or opinion that is overused and betrays a lack of original thought. $0/ (min cost $0) Login or signup to continue reading -...
Those of us who closely, intensely followed the often sordid and soul-staining Bruce Lehrmann defamation trial were giving in to a vice, were engaging...
The feverish debate over whether elderly Joe Biden and cosmetically mummified Donald Trump are too old and decayed to possibly be capable presidents...
One of the new joys of the age-old custom of going to church (I mused to my agnostic self as I settled into my pew in Canberra's St Paul's church on...
"I do not approve of anything that tampers with natural ignorance. Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit, touch it and the bloom is gone." Lady...
Sensitive readers, does every glimpse and mention in the news of Donald Trump make your flesh creep, turn your stomach, deepen your fear and loathing...
The Canberra Liberals have made the pulse-quickening promise that if swept to power in October's ACT election they will give each and every Canberra...
The longer one lives in tranquil and tranquilizing Canberra, the more startling and thrilling Sydney seems for a Canberran when he or she visits that...
What does it say about Canberra and Canberrans that when a prominent Queenslander gibbers to the media that Canberra is "an awful place" so many...
Exposure to the finest art of the finest artists works improving, character-building wonders in us. Perhaps, then, exposure to the fine arts should...
I am 78 and one morning this week I was sitting at my computer reading news of the senile decay of US president Joe Biden, 81, when I discovered I'd...
"It's important to be amazed about absolutely everything." $0/ (min cost $0) Login or signup to continue reading - Terry Pratchett, beloved ...
Although we imagine our politicians are the most arrogant and egomaniacal of Australians (that's why we boo our prime ministers in the Rod Laver...
The chances of my ever going to prison seem slight, since, even if I am caught yet again vandalising Liberal Party election posters with my...
Happy, fortunate, thrice-blessed females of Australia! At last you have a role model of what true Australian womanhood should be (ever decoratively...
At courtside on the Friday afternoon of last week's excellent world-class Canberra International tennis tournament at Lyneham one thrilled to the...
"On recent estimates, the observable universe - the portion of the universe that we can detect through our telescopes - extends about 47 billion...
Canberra's serial thunderstorms of Christmas Day and Boxing Day (my substantial mansion seemed to tremble on its foundations as if built of blancmange...
"Luther maintained that without music, man is little more than a stone; but with music he can drive the Devil away." - John Eliot Gardiner in Bach:...
Yield not to Temptation For yielding is Sin. - Satan-combatting Christian hymn I can resist everything, except temptation. - Oscar Wilde ...
Mystical Lake George is brimmingly full at the moment and driving home to Canberra alongside its enigmatic expanse on Monday I was reminded of how,...