Governance – Adelaide Football Club Style
At first, my feeling was one of bemusement when the Adelaide Football Club’s CEO (and another senior manager at the club) were found to have engaged in salary cap abuse,…
Six Square Metres
More than a year ago I planted a vine called a Happy Wanderer against the back fence in the lane that lies between the rear of my home and the…
Dr K’s Curious Chronicles
This common lined chiton was prised from a King Island rock by François Péron, a half-blind French zoologist in 1802, to become part of the most comprehensive collection of Australian…
Letter from the North
It’s a strange thing about Australians: they don’t have a strong sense of the sheer size of their country. Australia, for the record, is huge.
Montefiore
Now that thousands of tourists have departed for another year, we need a quiet chat about a few Adelaide city matters.
We can’t always get what we want
For a country so obsessed with winning, as a nation we have been strangely tolerant of a race in which we seem to want all protagonists to lose.
Six Square Metres
Ten years ago when my children were little I lived far from any beaten track in the Blue Mountains of New South Wales. I kept goats that were named after…
Third Age: Terms of endearment
“Get well soon, Jill darling,” I heard myself saying recently. And before I could process what seemed strange about that, I had a phone call confirming someone’s visit later that…
Wild Chocolate
Easter is celebrated on the first Sunday after the Paschal full moon following the northern hemisphere’s spring equinox. For non-Christians the celebration is mostly about holidays and chocolate – for…
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