If you are old enough to remember ANZAAS congresses, you might be wondering what happened to them. The last one was held in Adelaide in 1997....
Alan Adler, who died earlier this year at the age of ninety-three, was for more than fifty years the owner and operator of a series of...
Several excellent critiques of Jillian Segal’s “Special Envoy’s Plan to Combat Antisemitism” have appeared, by Louise Adler (the Guardian), Henry Reynolds (Pearls and Irritations), Nick Feik...
The United States is slip-sliding towards authoritarianism under Donald Trump. Elected leaders in Israel, Turkey and Hungary have blurred the line between democracy and dictatorship. North...
This year the fourth of July marked more than the celebration of America’s Independence Day: it was the day Donald Trump signed his One Big Beautiful...
Arrogant, disrespectful, racist and a liar. When the Northern Territory coroner presented her 683-page report on the death of nineteen-year-old Kumanjayi Walker on Monday, those were...
The world of Joycean studies is, on the face of it, downright bizarre. What is there to say about the professors who pore over the puns...
Early in 1973 the Karmel committee, created by the new and aggressively reformist Whitlam government, was hard at work devising a way for all schools, including...
When I was a law student in the early nineties, I met a federal prosecutor at a party. I told her that she had my dream...
In 2021, David Cronenberg released the briefest of short works, made with his daughter Cressida. The Death of David Cronenberg featured the director contemplating a realistic...