Don’t panic
The pandemic is the most significant global event since World War II. There’s a sense that we are entering a different world.
Columnists
No wonder farmers are going feral
Think bitcoin is a risky investment? Try producing food. The last decade has seen the rural version of World War III.
‘Terrifying’: a spin in Ferrari’s $3.8m Daytona SP3
Ferrari’s Daytona SP3 costs $3.8m, and there are only 599 in the world. So why did they chuck me the keys to take it for a spin?
‘So fast I damn nearly soiled myself’
The Lamborghini Countach was once the dream car of teenage boys the world over. And now it’s back with a vengeance.
The human touch
Society is still in the techno-honeymoon phase – but later this decade, I reckon, a great skill re-evaluation will unfold.
How did one car crash lead to all this?
On this block outside Cooma more than 3000 cars — many of them covetable old classics — sit in the long grass. What is this place?
Gifts to us all
Historian Manning Clark’s family home in Canberra is a gem of a place. And anyone can visit, thanks to the generosity of his family.
Hunger for a new type of restaurant
The time is ripe for restaurants with different business models that get around heavy staffing demands. Here are two new ones breaking the mould.
Do kids ever recover from divorce? I didn’t
When parents are at war, it’s always the kids who suffer most. I’ve been there, as a child, and in middle age I still carry the scars.
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Great leaps forward
Looking back through time, at 60-year intervals, brings into focus common themes in Australian life. Come with me on that journey.
Finally, the European answer to Tesla
BMW’s i4 could well be the first car to give the long-held hegemony of Tesla’s Model 3 a good shake by producing a properly Germanic, attractive and sporty four-door EV sedan.
We swapped cultural cringe for Coca-colonisation
We dragged the Trojan horse of US soft power into our lounge rooms and lost our cultural distinctions by osmosis.
Crocodile egg ice cream, anyone?
There’s a whole culture of weird ice cream out there. I went down a rabbit hole of “research” that consumed most of an afternoon.
The ultimate driving machine
The 911 GTS is the car I’d buy, if I had the money. So what makes it stand out from all the other dozens of 911 flavours?
Abe the latest in a long line of political killings
In the long and bloody history of political assassinations around the world, Australia has a chapter of its own.
Goodbye to all that
The world as we knew it in 2019 is long gone. But for all the challenges we are currently facing, I’m hopeful for the future.
In praise of trees
Trees are medicine and tonic. Life-giving, shade-giving, de-stressing and reviving. Imagine a world without them.
The trick with truffles? You’ve got to go hard
There’s no point grating or slicing a parsimonious quantity over something and hoping to get the buzz. Do this instead.
Rock around the clock
How I bonded with the Picnic at Hanging Rock author, and how that led to me solving its mystery.
In tech we trust
We’ve gone from God to Google, from the Almighty to algorithms.
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