If Australia wins the current Test series against India, it would be the first time since 1968-69 that it has won a five-game series at home after losing the first[...]
When a cricket team is set anything more than 400 to win a Test, the target is generally considered out of reach. The thinking behind this stems from the fact[...]
The departure of David Armstrong as the managing director of the ABC is not surprising given that he was another management type trying to manage a news organisation and realising[...]
It is more than a little surprising that Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has got so much blowback for his announcements at the Canberra women’s rally against domestic violence. Albanese has[...]
Many politicians and public servants in Australia enjoy an incestuous relationship with journalists and have long done so. Such relationships often leave the journalist compromised when some hidden detail about[...]
Chamchagiri is a Hindi word that refers to the practice of flattering or appeasing a superior or a person in power. It is the best way to describe the manner[...]
Australian rugby has been so battered and bruised this season — four losses in four games — that anything even remotely better than a hammering is hailed as something akin[...]
Australia will be able to regain something of its former glory in international rugby only when it is coached by an Anglo-Saxon. The Wallabies, as the team is known, may[...]
The SBS documentary, The Kingdom, deals with – well, I thought it was about the church known as Hillsong until I watched it. Turns out that this isn’t the case;[...]
There has been much weeping, wailing and gnashing of teeth over the recent sacking of Andrew Probyn, the political editor at Australia’s taxpayer-funded broadcaster, the ABC. If one were to[...]