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Newsletter 421
Monday, December 27th, 2021 Newsletter,Another Christmas. It seems to mean less and less every year when you’re not actively engaged in trying to keep children happy. If it feels even more subdued than usual in 2021, the reasons are not hard to find. Now the Health Minister, Greg _unt, is telling us we don’t need to wait five months […]
Newsletter 420
Monday, December 20th, 2021 Newsletter,As we get closer to Christmas things only seem to get busier. This week has been madder than ever, so I’m not going to try and write a proper newsletter. The most noteworthy thing may be the stealthy increase in COVID-19 cases, and the growing indifference of government and the general public. As I write, […]
Newsletter 419
Monday, December 13th, 2021 Newsletter,I’m afraid the increasing lateness of these postings is an index of the mad scale-up in activity as we come out of the COVID-19 lockdowns. I had a feeling that as soon as we could get back to something approaching normality, life would be frantic again. And so it has come to pass. I’m having […]
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Monday, November 29th, 2021 Newsletter,Apologies for the lateness of this newsletter. I can blame a combination of factors but I’ll spare you the excuses. The art column this week is the delayed Doug Aitken review, which looks at the American artist’s show at the MCA, which will stretch on over summer. The movie is Edgar Wright’s Last Night in Soho, […]
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Monday, November 22nd, 2021 Newsletter,I’ve held back this week’s newsletter wondering exactly what was going to be published on the weekend. The Herald has a review of the Doug Aitken show at the MCA and two other pieces I’ve written, but a space crisis has prevailed and the column is on hold again – which means it’s also on […]
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Monday, November 15th, 2021 Newsletter,This week the biggest news may be the launch of a new 007 movie. If that sounds suitably trashy I can only agree. The James Bond franchise has been powering along with the same formula for decades and No Time to Die, as you’ll read in this week’s film review, offers no radical departures. It’s […]
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Monday, November 8th, 2021 Newsletter,Is it only me or did anybody else think that Daniel Lanzer, the dodgy cosmetic surgeon who was outed on Four Corners last week, was the dead spit of Scummo? Watching Dr. Lanzer give his creepy self-justifications on film, his face wreathed in the most hideous smirk, I thought our great leader had donned a […]
Newsletter 413
Monday, November 1st, 2021 Newsletter,Watching the decline of the Australian media over the years has been a depressing experience. In the past, politicians that lied and fudged so relentlessly, showing themselves to be barely willing to deal with problems or pursue any constructive policies, would have been subjected to some rigorous criticism. Yet the coverage devoted to Scummo’s painful, […]
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Friday, October 29th, 2021 Newsletter,With the Glasgow Climate Summit less than two weeks away, the Coalition is speeding towards a climate policy! Having been in government for the past eight years they’ve never actually thought much about it before – it was just one of those things that got the lefties and greenies excited. Until now it’s been easy […]
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Monday, October 18th, 2021 Newsletter,Things are opening up in Sydney! The streets are full of unmasked people, and the local pub is raging again, restoring our street’s familiar parking problem. I’ve spent half of my week sorting out Medicare and MyGov apps, and cursing the bureaucrats that have given us such a complicated tangled system swarming with bugs. The […]