Paola Totaro
Paola Totaro is the former Europe correspondent for the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age.
War, elitism, racism: The Aussie taking Oxford uni’s hot topics off the boil
Tim Soutphommasane, the first chief diversity officer at one of Britain’s most storied institutions, is no stranger to controversy.
- by Paola Totaro
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Opinion
Public transport
Pets on public transport? Sydney should follow London’s lead
I was amazed by the negative response to Clover Moore’s proposal. In London, every commuter is allowed two animals per fare.
- by Paola Totaro
Opinion
Vale
Only once did I curtsy before her, but this republican grieves the Queen
Greeted by the Queen at Buckingham Palace, I stood behind Australian novelist Kathy Lette, who wore a suit emblazoned with corgis in crowns. The royals were much amused.
- by Paola Totaro
One upside of COVID: New research into our startling olfactory capacities
Our ability to smell is the most underrated of our senses – or it was, until the pandemic led researchers to unveil some of its great mysteries.
- by Paola Totaro
Opinion
Boris Johnson
Johnson, the supreme and brazen survivor, finally succumbs
Boris Johnson has now been dragged, kicking, and screaming, from No 10 Downing St. But serious questions remain over his plan to stay on as caretaker PM.
- by Paola Totaro
Opinion
Political leadership
How the PM’s ‘Italianness’ exposed the nation’s greatest gift
While Italy’s media has revelled in Anthony Albanese’s personal history, the PM’s Italian connection has also shown how identity has little to do with borders and passports.
- by Paola Totaro
Opinion
UK politics
The Australians trying to save ‘mortally wounded’ Boris Johnson
With mounting resignations, loss of support from his MPs and a police investigation into ‘partygate’, the UK Prime Minister has called on Australian strategists in a desperate attempt to save his leadership.
- by Paola Totaro
Opinion
Political leadership
Boris Johnson left dangling as Britain fumes over Downing Street parties
Ask any Brit to conjure up their most vivid image of Boris Johnson and chances are it would be his stunt-gone-wrong during the London Olympics. Now, almost 10 years later, his career hangs by a far more tenuous wire.
- by Paola Totaro
From the Archives, 1994: Walsh Bay to get its name in lights
The NSW Government was considering a new plan - proposed by FAI Insurance’s Rodney Adler - to transform the piers and wharves of Walsh Bay into an arts precinct.
- by Paola Totaro
Opinion
Australian film
Port Arthur massacre a story that must be told, not buried
There are still lessons to be learned about what happened in the lead up to that sunny Sunday in 1996, when Bryant walked into a tourist cafe and started shooting. A touted new film might help us learn them.
- by Paola Totaro and Robert Wainwright
Opinion
Coronavirus pandemic
They made a mockery of our trust: why Britain is united in fury at the PM and his adviser
White-hot, palpable fury has spanned the political divide.
- by Paola Totaro
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