Exciting times in the media, folks, but our favourite moment of the last few months was People’s Spokesman and Champion of Everything That Is Right And Good, AFL chief Andrew Demetriou saying on...

‘People should be aware of what’s out there. And not believe what they read just because it’s written.’

Astro-turf creation expert ‘Sharepro’

The lack of imagination shown by the media and...

This is an edited extract of an address given to the Australian Society for Australians who feel fondly towards but are also a bit afraid of Scientists.

Good evening and thanks for having me. I’m...

So, a funny thing happened a few months back. In my own little way, I contributed to this country’s disturbing trend towards shutting down freedom of speech. Or something.

Here’s how the story...

Time is a mighty river, and I am an ominously unpiloted rental kayak floating past the picnic area.

It’s my first day at a new job, writing the content for a website that helps young people who’ve...

King Henry I of England, known to later generations as Henry Beauclerc, the Lion Of Justice, succeeded his flamboyant brother William II under deeply suspicious circumstances. However, over the...

It’s a sardonic line but a cautionary tale: the internet is the place where men are men, women are men, and 14 year olds are the FBI.

It’s indisputable that we should be alert to and protect...

Stop The Boats. Great Big New Tax. Moving Forward. Working Families.

Shut. The. Fuck. Up.

On second thought, I take that back. On third thought, I don’t take it back, I just append to it ‘unless...

Most economics reporting is about things we can measure: interest rates, inflation, the All Ordinaries index, the unemployment rate, the way the economy is rated by various agencies like Moodies,...

If I had to nominate the biggest challenge facing the world today, it would be: problems. Problems today are at near-historical highs, and it’s getting to the point where, if drastic action is not...

Everyone’s talking about gambling these days. Poker machines are at the middle of a war between the Federal government and just about everyone else, bikini-clad girls and voodoo dolls are flogging...

Being a woman is difficult in 2011. Sure, it’s not like we have to cram our corseted bustles through the one-way turnstile in a cholera ward any more, but still — there are umpteen thousand...

‘If an election were held today...’ is probably the most oft-repeated phrase in political reporting after ‘stop the boats’ and ‘people smuggler’s business model’. Weekly polls and the slightest...

I used to think multiculturalism was the bee’s knees. Don’t get me wrong — I’m grateful Australia has an official policy that recognizes cultural diversity under the umbrella of loyalty to our...

Words are powerful things, far more than we realise most of the time. Public debate can be led or changed simply by capturing the words that bring a visceral reaction and claiming them for our...

The famous scholar Archimedes is claimed to have said ‘Give me a lever and a place to stand and I will move the world.’ This wasn’t just an expression of his understanding of physics, but a...

The Libs are riding high in the polls, but they didn’t get there with careful planning and detailed policies. They did it by implanting into the media, and from there into the electorate, fear and...

Gay and lesbian issues are quite popular in the Australian media right now; some would even say it’s all a bit sexy, as celebrities, politicians and a range of activists bang the drum for or...

I grew up in a pretty good time in Australia, I reckon. Oh, the media, as it always will, would disagree, telling me all manner of terrible things about the mid-Seventies to early Eighties, but...

There are days in my life when things go swimmingly.

I find the right number of coins in my purse to feed the parking meter. The sun peeks out on my one and only laundry day. Sydney’s roaring...

Stanley Kubrick isn’t the first filmmaker to explore that which, in essence, unites mankind. But, with Dr Strangelove or: How I Learnt to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964), I’d say that he is...

Australian blue mussels are at their best between July and February. Readily available from fishmongers, it is not worth the risk collecting mussels yourself. Cultivated mussels are farmed in...

Justin's cryptic crossword is, from what we hear, making our readers quite cross. So to give you all some inspiration, the first person to tweet or email us a photo of the correctly completed...