I think we bring together an outstanding group of writers for you here at the Tribune. We’re proud of the work they do and proud that we can publish it. We look for writers who have more than just...

The Baillieu Government, like so many state governments around Australia, promotes a “tough on crime” agenda. The media happily tags along, creating a fear of youth driven crime waves that,...

After 10 years of nurturing my hatred of John Howard, I should have been ecstatic at his defeat, I should still be dancing about it even now. I’m not, but thanks to him I understand a little...

Let me say up front that as someone who has been ‘out’ as a lesbian for 27 years, I just don’t get this push for gay marriage. I don’t understand why it has become a headline issue in the push for...

Brief from my editor: “How are things in your brain at the moment? Got any thoughts you’d like to throw together for us? Something political if you have it lying around...”

Well, yes I do, I guess...

Julia Gillard has problems but they are not the ones usually mentioned in the media.

Her problem is not the way she replaced Kevin Rudd as leader, or that she ‘broke’ her ‘promise’ about a carbon...

The asylum seeker debate has almost never been about the facts, it’s about fear. Most often it’s about baseless fears, cynically manipulated by politicians looking for traction and the mainstream...

Anyone who knows me knows I have always been a friend to the gay community. I regularly watch Glee, and once I listened to a Lady Gaga song. I even know someone who’s met a gay. I think. He may...

And so, with the demise of 6.30 with George Negus, Australia’s dirtiest secret has been exposed. There’s no longer any point denying it, now the courageous programming innovation featuring the...

Henry II was a short, stocky, bad tempered ranga who married the wealthiest and most desirable heiress in Europe. At the height of his powers he liked to brag that his empire rivalled...

There was a slight frisson of excitement amongst pundits last September when word got out that Labor left figures had vehemently argued in caucus against the Malaysia people-swap deal. Though some...

The manager is standing over me as I peruse his lengthy cheese platter.

‘The one on the far end is especially piquant,’ he says.

‘Oh?’

‘Oh yes. Especially,’ he says.

I am about to make two decisions,...

The “occupy” movement in Australia would be funny if it wasn’t so infuriating and ignorant. It’s a little solar system with a small sun of a genuine point, then orbiting socialism groups,...

In the last few weeks, I haven’t been sleeping so well.

I wake up in the middle of the night, with an anxious feeling gnawing at the pit of my stomach. I lie in bed, trying to go back to sleep and...

One of the things that makes me look forward to Spring is the accelerated rate at which my lawn will grow, meaning that there’ll be plenty of opportunities to mow the lawn. I didn’t always enjoy...

The mainstream media has been convulsed in an orgy of navel gazing over leadership speculation recently. Not just fuelling the stories, but actually creating them and then feverishly pulling them...

Whenever you hear the phrase “Australian Classical Music”, you get a variety of responses. “For the elites”, “old people listen to classical”. “Classical? Boring.” “Music Appreciation Classes”,...

Given how early and how aggressively retailers put out their Christmas product it’s nothing short of a Christmas miracle that the studios don’t go overboard with seasonal cinematic spirit. But for...

Some years ago, friends and I drove from Manhattan to Provincetown on Cape Cod in Massachusetts. We sampled the local lobster along the way — stopping off at the likes of ‘Clem and Ursies’ Diner...

I recently returned from an extended trip to the States that took me to both California and Pennsylvania. The two states offered up a world of difference in terms of what, where and how (which may...

Cryptic goodness.

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