Keywords: Australian Cricket Team
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Brian Matthews
- 03 February 2012
25 Comments
I don't think for one minute that Abbott, in saying it was time to 'move on' from the Tent Embassy, meant it should be ripped down. The ensuing riot occurred because 'moving on' is an imponderable phrase, a synonym for sticking one's head in the sand.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Ian C. Smith
- 31 January 2012
Although most are probably long dead, they seem happy, even excited. Perhaps they will toss triumphant hats. The wind might favour their team, even steal tossed hats, but not hope.
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MEDIA
- Andrew Hamilton
- 15 November 2011
11 Comments
As a cricket writer Roebuck appreciated that other things in life matter more than sport. But precisely because sport does not matter ultimately, he was freed to take it very seriously indeed.
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MARGARET DOOLEY AWARD
- Nadine Rabah
- 31 August 2011
43 Comments
My childhood memories are filled with stereotypical Aussie pastimes such as backyard cricket. But as a Muslim, I do feel like an outsider at times. Why do we constantly have to be portrayed as evil people? 'We're not all like that', I find myself shouting at certain news stories.'
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Brian Matthews
- 05 August 2011
1 Comment
Sebastian Junger's The Perfect Storm makes one marvel at the way events separated by vast times and distances can conspire to produce unpredictable results. In 1959 Australian cricket great Richie Benaud found himself at the end of a chain of events set in motion by Mahatma Gandhi.
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AUSTRALIA
As some recent Australian elections have shown, leaders do not always let go in time to avoid embarrassment. Retiring Australian cricket captian Ricky Ponting usually behaved with dignity. But there are moments he'd no doubt prefer to expunge from the record.
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AUSTRALIA
- John Honner
- 07 January 2011
3 Comments
The fortunes of the English and Australian cricket teams follow the fortunes of their nations' conservative governments.
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AUSTRALIA
- Michael Mullins
- 05 July 2010
17 Comments
Julia Gillard is expected to exercise moral authority because she was chosen by her party to work
for the common good of the nation. Her agreement with major mining companies to take the sting out of the mining tax
shows a poor start.
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INTERNATIONAL
- Jan Forrester
- 28 June 2010
6 Comments
I am struck by lurid online comment on whether Aussie troops should go or stay in Afghanistan, a miasma of old-left vs new-right
trench exchanges, armchair military strategists and conspiracy theorists. As in the national game of Buzkashi, Afghanistan is a goat carcass fought over by a gaggle of teams.
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AUSTRALIA
- Michael Visontay
- 11 June 2010
3 Comments
In the Olympics, the countries with the biggest
populations win the most medals. Not in the World Cup. The United States' underdog status is one of the unifying pleasures of football
fans around the world.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Paul Collins
- 30 March 2009
10 Comments
Ronald Conway (1927–2009) was of a rare breed in Australia. He stood
against the prevailing climate of thought which ignores important questions of faith, spirituality and human experience, and
focuses on the conventional and politically correct.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Malcolm King
- 13 January 2009
Even though the university was now in phase seven of its Orwellian audit on 'where money was coming from and where it was going', they still had not yet twigged that there was a cell of book buying anarchists wearing sensible shoes in their midst. (February 2008)
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