The End of Time
The End of Time Nearly a quarter of a century later, it is hard to recall all the excitement – and angst – that [...]
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12, 2024
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12, 2024
What Happened to Class
What Happened to Class? When I was growing up in the UK, class was an accepted feature of the social world. It wasn’t so [...]
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11, 2024
Pooh
Pooh This is an ‘unpublished book review’ from late 1964?? It would have been something to submit it to the Carleton Miscellany that year, [...]
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08, 2024
A Map to the End of Time
A Map To the End of Time Serendipity. I had just read two novels by Claire North, Ithaca and House of Odysseus. Like two [...]
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07, 2024
Boom and Bust
Boom and Bust I might have mentioned that I love Alice in Wonderland. In fact I might have mentioned this several times. If you [...]
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07, 2024
Throwing Light on the Matter
Throwing Light On the Matter My father was a physics teacher, and I suspect that it was in one of his collection of books [...]
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06, 2024
Self-Employment
Self-Employment Several years ago, the Australian Institute of Management would hold regular one-day briefings on the economy and future trends. Many of us enjoyed [...]
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05, 2024
Colour Blind
Colour Blind Having a father who was a senior school physics teacher could have ensured all sorts of benefits. He could have helped me [...]
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04, 2024
Losing the Middle Ground
Losing the Middle Ground The search for meaning is a never-ending quest. In part, it is what drives us to keep on learning, asking [...]
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04, 2024
What’s Going On?
What’s Going on? Browsing in the library is a dangerous pastime. I exercise this foolish endeavour in the Dickson Public Library in Canberra. Like [...]
