The central improbability of the Henson porngraphy case is the idea that paedophiles will download pictures of his nudes off the net and use them for gratification. Why are porn sites still one of the surest ways to make money on the Internet? Because picutres of real naked people overtly engaging in sexual acts are […]

And blowing things up as well. Little sister Helene made the Cairns Post. She’s been short-listed along with seven others for the USA Golden Hearts Award for Romance writing. SHE has blown up Circular Quay and even had a romance along the way – all in the name of fiction. Pilot Helene Young, from Trinity […]

When you want to escape with your skin intact you need to sacrifice something which is most dear to you, and to those who pursue you. That’s the solution adopted by Medea when fleeing Colchis with her lover Jason (and the Golden Fleece). She cut her brother Absyrtis into pieces and scattered him in the […]

As it happens, we had just seen Mad Max 1 when the brou ha ha broke out over Mel Gibson’s various forms of intemperance. The wonderful ANU Film Group had scheduled MM2, and it was a good chance to revisit the MM troika. How very Australian it is, the fields outside Melbourne equally parched back […]

Ron Radford, the newish director of the Australian National Gallery, has come up with a not entirely logical proposal to fund its growth. He suggests that as “masterpieces go up in value at a much faster rate than shares or property,” 2% of the Government’s $16 billion Future Fund should be devoted to buying artworks […]