Keywords: Cricket Australia
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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
- Vinay Verma
- 23 March 2010
As angels of innocence cast .. Imperfect shadows .. God idioms are intoned .. Perfunctory .. As morning ablutions .. Disciples invoking pacts of compromise .. Offering souls and solutions .. Silent in their conspiracy
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AUSTRALIA
- Michael Mullins
- 15 March 2010
15 Comments
For the past week we've been transfixed by the disintegrating
relationship between a promising cricket vice captain and a famous
model. The good that celebrities do receives scant media attention compared
with exhaustive reporting of the details of their relationships and wealth.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Frank O'Shea
- 16 December 2009
3 Comments
If you ever hear a House Manager admit that her neighbour has made a
better Christmas cake, write down the
time, place and the names of witnesses, and get it signed by your
parish priest. It is the kind of thing that
might be useful in the early stages of a canonisation process.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Brian Matthews
- 09 December 2009
2 Comments
January 1961: the fourth Ashes test. On the eve of the final day, with Australia's plight looking grim, we
went to a Chinese restaurant. We'd just given our
orders when Richie Benaud, Neil Harvey, Allan Davidson and Ken
'Slasher' Mackay walked in.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Roanna Gonsalves
- 23 June 2009
36 Comments
Vincent and I were both international students
from Bombay. He had lived here for a year while I had only arrived
three months ago. We worked in the same Indian restaurant. The night of his attack, Vincent sounded upbeat on the train.
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AUSTRALIA
- Andrew Hamilton
- 15 June 2009
3 Comments
What do footballers who give photographers the bird, comedians who make
jokes about sick children, boat owners who bring asylum seekers to
Australian shores, cooks who swear, and cricketers who drink have in
common?
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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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AUSTRALIA
- Tony Smith
- 27 January 2009
20 Comments
Today's commentators seem determined to speak about anything but the
cricket — their lunches, last night's frivolities, films, politics and, most of all, themselves. Much more than the Australian players, Test cricket commentators are in crisis.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Michael McVeigh
- 19 December 2008
2 Comments
Life here leaves characters little time for introspection or philosophy. When politics finds its way into the strips, it's done in typically irreverent country style. Footrot Flats is one thing Australians could never steal from our nearby neighbours.
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