On this Valentine’s Day of 2008 may I take the opportunity to wish you love. If romanitic love is not on your doorstep, perhaps that more diffuse emotion of social well-being is within your domain. This may consist of no more than an absence of malice. In the aftermath of the historic apology to the […]

The ABC’s decision not to publish Jonestown seems more and more misguided each day. In November The Age was reporting it had sold 12,700 in its first week, almost as many as The Latham Diaries while The Australian had it still at 15 on the best seller lists at Christmas. Why am I musing about […]

Stephen Hagan says that it was racism that saw Aboriginal elder Aunty Delmae “left for dead for five hours” after she collapsed at a Brisbane bus stop. Apparently hundreds of commuters passed her by and finally it was a group of Japanese students who helped her. But is this really an example of racism? Was […]