Today was a day for speechifying by television big wigs. Even as Foxtel’s Kim Williams was calling for deregulation of the television industry, as reported in my previous post, the ABC’s Director of Television, Kim Dalton, was suggesting that regulation be extended to cover new platforms, including mobile telephones and television content delivered by the [...] Comments (1)

It was a beat up when Piers Akerman wrote about it. It was a beat up when Bronwyn Bishop, Liberal Senator Chris Back and then freshman Jamie Brigs all repeated it in The Punch. It’s still a beat up now that another low profile Liberal Senator is trotting it out in The Punch again. Comments (15)

Last week, hundreds of private emails and documents from climate scientists were nicked from computer servers at the Climatic Research Unit of the UK’s University of East Anglia and unleashed into the wilds of the intertubes. Comments (1)

It seems that every time the senior management of Pel-Air open their mouths in public they take on more water. Comments (12)

Last week, Crikey asked me to write something for the pay-for-view newsletter on the huge, earth-shattering controversy of Britney Spears’ lip-syncing.  It is now reproduced below with a new update…. Comments (12)

Some years ago when I was a bookstore girl, I became intrigued by this massive brick of a book called Cross Stitch, which many middle-aged women would get flustered over: ‘You haven’t read it?’ they’d ask. Comments (3)

in ordinary circumstances under the previous regime, Ms Nudjulu would have been a prime candidate for a custodial sentence. She had previous convictions for possession of alcohol contrary to the Liquor Act - and was currently subject to a suspended sentence. Comments (4)

Rocky and I have decided the time has come to move on. I signaled this possibility in a previous post, on September 17, when I posted a piece which showed, I hope, the direction in which my writing was taking me–away from Rocky and Gawenda. Rocky is on board with this, for our mornings together [...] Comments (12)

Unrelated to the soon to be judged bad sex in fiction awards (litworld’s finest annual moment outside the Man Booker) is the looming release of the movie version of Cormac McCarthy’s The Road. What a harrowing, yet unstoppable book that was. Grimly unrelieved. I can’t decide yet whether to take my mind’s eye view on [...] Comments (1)

Begorrah. Talk about the luck of the Irish. Ireland’s football team was cruelly denied a place at next year’s World Cup in South Africa due to a blatant piece of cheating from the French this morning. Comments (13)