Does play belong in primary schools? Prince Planet’s on his way!
One of the biggest issues facing teachers is this – with such an intense curriculum, where do you find the time to play? If so, what form does it take?
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A dear friend’s wake reminds me: life can be a merry dance
Going to a wake is like a maypole dance, where all those who attend are ribbons tied to the centre. Which makes you think about death, age and the will to live.
Pandemic panic: What were we thinking?
Conspiracy theories abounded but the reality was just as crazy during the era of Omicron. But what if Covid never went away?
Payback plot: Did gangster Regan’s lover lure him into a death trap?
Motives abound for the murder of Stewart John Regan, but few are as compelling as the idea he was set up by the mother of the child he’s rumoured to have killed.
The emails that may send us all to an early grave
We have all received those messages wishing us good health – from someone we have never met, trying to sell us paint. It’s not courtesy, it’s a global pandemic of insincerity.
Was Regan’s death payback for toddler?
Stewart John Regan insisted he had never hurt a child, but he’s been branded a child killer for more than 50 years.
More than half a century later, the Whiskey is still scarred
It had always been something of a tomb, a place you looked at solemnly from the outside, a place so tragic it required no words.
Who decided it had to be 10,000 steps? Don’t go down that rabbit hole
Oh dear, what if there’s nothing at all but marketing behind the step count that now rules our lives?
Regan revealed as figure behind evil Whiskey firebombing
For decades, Regan’s involvement in the Whiskey Au Go Go tragedy eluded investigators. Now, new witnesses have shed new light on this shocking crime.
How a brush with rotten tomatoes led to my food obsession
Is it a quirk or a disorder? Am I a ‘whiteatarian’? My own history of picky eating looks different now that everything has a label.
Original URL: https://www.theaustralian.com.au/author/matthew-condon