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An impossible choice — even for an avowed dog person
The vet had spoken: the cat had to go. For dog’s sake. But, but, there was an odd situation in this household – and Frankie knew something was up.
I’m declaring war on war. Who’s with me?
The bombs and rockets that once razed parts of London are falling still – in Ukraine and Gaza. Are we humans in love with war?
No family was untouched by the two world wars
Every Australian family with links to this era has stories to tell of family members lost and, sadly, of the often broken men who returned. Now is the time for us to show our appreciation.
I was genuinely baffled by the split personality of this ‘Vette
Muscle cars, like this visually violent Chevrolet Corvette Stingray, seek attention and eyeballs in the same way. They’re big and loud, both the visual and aural sense. Or at least so I’d always thought.
The brutal new class division appearing in Australia
That silky game of inheritocracy is playing out all around me.
This is a bit unhinged, as sports cars should be
Anyone with even a tiny bit of testosterone in their underpants would want to drive this jacked-up, armour-plated Porsche 911 across the Sahara. So what’s stopping you?
I’m clueless about tech — but it never stopped me
You know about fake news, the notion unveiled by the Donald. Today we discuss fake expertise, the fraud perpetrated by the Phillip.
Millennial parents feel the call of suburbia
Throughout the 2010s Millennials emerged – blossomed, even – as tech-savvy knowledge workers favouring digs in the inner city. But they’re now discovering that kids change everything.
Too lazy to use the brake pedal? Here’s the car for you
It sometimes seems to me that human progress can be seen as a ceaseless quest to produce more and more labour-saving devices. This Clayton’s EV is the most alarming.
Inside this thrilling homage to WA flora
The forward-thinking garden of architect Andrew Boyne’s Celilo House features a whopping 300 West Australian natives. It’s a place that celebrates the state and all of its wild splendour.
True crime podcasts are booming. I’ve joined the bandwagon
Who really killed Franz Ferdinand? Lincoln? Hitler? Gandhi? Pope John Paul I? JonBenet Ramsey? Join me, your host, as I discover new evidence and rewrite history.
Fuel for our first podcast: Modern cars to push old men’s buttons
These hybrids by Mazda and Honda are practical, inoffensive and blessed with all the things that matter these days. But I just can’t make sense of them.
Mom on a mission to replace mum in Australia by 2030 … if not earlier
I wonder whether we would notice a shift in the collective Australian accent if we could travel back to 1999? I suspect our language has shifted – all thanks to our embrace of US culture.
The letter from a reader that made me gasp
After attending the local Catholic Church, a reader sat down to read my column in The Weekend Australian Magazine. They were in for a shock.
My old Golf is better than this knock-off Gucci bag on wheels
This gussied-up Golf is designed to fool strangers into thinking you are flash with cash and a driver of daring and dash, because it looks and feels, inside and out, like the Golf R.
We could learn a thing or two from corporate America
There is one incontrovertible fact that separates America from all other nations – including Australia. It’s the ability to create and quickly scale up new corporate enterprises.
The worst car I ever owned
Over the years I’ve spent millions feeding my addiction to cars – a Ferrari, a Porsche, Maserati and four E-Type Jaguars. But there is one which takes the mantle as the biggest lemon I ever had.
My newfound ritual is as close as I get to God on Earth
Every morning now, after the kids are poured off to school, I head to the beach before the light gets attacking and hard and feel old muscles awakened and strength coming back.
Asking the big questions of Australia
We’ve been linked together for 84 years so it was about time that I was granted an exclusive interview with our beloved country. Here’s what I learnt from the place we call home.
The NBN was a great success, now what?
During lockdown our newly minted broadband network enabled much of our workforce to work from home. Australia’s economic output barely dipped. What’s the next big nation-building idea?
Young women are shunning the pill … and I don’t blame them
Soon after losing my virginity, the pill muted all my wildness and irregularity, controlling my physiology in a way I didn’t quite trust. I’m not a fan – and thousands of women are with me.
How Crocodile Dundee blew up my radical talk show idea
It was to be a talk show, but with a difference: all guests would be as deceased as Python’s parrot, played by actors and repeating verbatim all the wild things said while they were alive.
Work from Blacktown, Ballarat… or Bali?
Australians, the inventors of seachange and treechange, are fusing work, with leisure and lifestyle. I see a world where both aspirations connect to deliver an even better quality of life.
We’re not used to heroes in real life anymore
At the upcoming Russian election, Alexei Navalny’s courage will be everywhere, in people’s minds. He is Russia’s conscience now. By dying, his legend roars through a vote he could never have won.
What a ride: I can’t seem to get out of McLaren’s last V8 supercar
Talk about going out with a bang. McLaren’s final V8 is a 331km/h heartstarter that makes a hell of a lot of noise but … where’s the door handle?
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My mum’s notebooks are a piece of social history
They were among my late mother’s most prized possessions and itemise the weekly costs of running a family home in the 1950s and 1960s.
Is there a crate of marble appendages in the Vatican’s cellars?
Before either the ailing Pope or your columnist dies, it seems timely to return to a lifelong interest of mine.
Would you describe Amal Clooney as ‘homely’? Her husband George did
The label has connotations of mousiness and mumsiness, the little housewife and little lady, balls and chains and trouble and strife. And we’re talking Amal Clooney here.
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