Sport is hard, especially when your eyesight fades, and you have to putt with your three-wood after you smashed your putter on the third green. Here’s how to make sport better, fairer and sometimes, thankfully, shorter, writes Patrick Carlyon.
No matter how enlightened the modern world, blokes are still supposed to know how to do “manly” things but it’s hard when your “unmanly” qualities are regularly exposed. All we can do is avoid Bunnings staff and ladders and hide the shameful truth, writes Patrick Carlyon.
As a veteran detective stared down at the bodies of Terence and Christine Hodson laying side-by-side, he knew immediately the murder was a “clusterf***”. Sixteen years on, the mystery remains just that.
The search for William Callaghan had continued non-stop, night and day, since he was reported missing. And finally, after emergency services and volunteers’ relentless efforts, their generosity finally resulted in a miracle at Mt Disappointment.
Two children of underworld informers Terence and Christine Hodson have won a secret payout over the execution of their parents in one of Melbourne’s most infamous unsolved crimes.
Human rights abuses in America do not match human rights abuses in China. For China to gloat about the dreadful scenes across dozens of US cities overlooks critical differences, writes Patrick Carlyon.
COVID-19 safety co-ordinators are popping up everywhere, but are the rules they’re enforcing even necessary? Has anyone stopped to wonder how you seek to suppress a second wave when, statistically, you have barely suffered a first, asks Patrick Carlyon.
The premier knew being the person to limit the liberties and livelihoods of Victorians during the coronavirus pandemic would make him unpopular, but he also knew Victoria going it alone was the only way to save so many lives.
When the Opposition attacked Premier Daniel Andrews for keeping social restrictions on Mother’s Day, it was Kew MP Tim Smith — not leader Michael O’Brien — who led their response. Now his stridency has forced him to deny leadership aspirations.
What’s becoming plain now lockdown restrictions are easing is that conspiracies and sinister vaccination programs are not as scary as the real threats posed by COVID-19. What felt like the end seems to be just the end of the beginning, writes Patrick Carlyon.
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