It’s about time they got this right
Just when it looked like the Australian of the Year award was about to sink into irrelevance, selectors stepped back from the brink, writes James Morrow.
Our Journalists
Latest
Who is really twisting the truth?
Donald Trump’s presidency deserves scrutiny. But if critics are going to call him out for playing with the truth, they have to get their own facts straight first.
What good is Sydney without its soul?
HAVE officials from the Lord Mayor all the way up to the Premier gone too far in protecting us from a good time, all in the name of public safety?
Man, this Iowa caucus just got raucous
THE results are in from Iowa, the first state in the US to preselect for president. And as a certain populist candidate might put it, they are YUUUUGE.
The un-Australian of the year
AUSTRALIANS of the Year bagging out the Liberal government of the day is a tradition almost as old as the award itself.
And so the annual whingefest begins
THE first airings of Meat and Livestock Australia’s brilliant new ad campaign had barely faded before an army of harrumphers had cracked open their PCs.
It’s not an alien invasion, it’s just politics
AMERICA may be the land of cities where you can buy a sixpack after 10pm but, when it comes to selecting leaders, Australia has it all over the Yanks.
Stop whingeing and just enjoy yourself
SNEERING at New Year’s Eve doesn’t make you cultured, any more than a Peter Fitzsimons book on your coffee table makes you a historian.
Many threats are real. Bacon is not one of them
Three iron laws remain intact: Bacon is awesome; Meddling public health types really ought to stick to their knitting and find real problems to solve; And did I mention that bacon is really awesome?
The gospel according to Paul Barry
TOO much press coverage (an “avalanche”, in Paul Barry’s words) of terror attacks, as well as the wrong “tone”, is now dangerous, apparently.
Original URL: https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/journalists/james-morrow/page/164