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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08, 2024
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08, 2024
Ordinary Vices
Ordinary Vices I was born just before the first of the Baby Boomers generation. They emerged when the Second World War was over, Europe [...]
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08, 2024
The Middle Ground
The Middle Ground Over the past 150 years, we have seen dramatic changes in countries and their governments. As the time of the divine [...]
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07, 2024
The Railway Children
The Railway Children Remembering children’s books is a serendipitous exercise. In my case, some are established favourites, and so Pooh, Rat and Mole and [...]
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06, 2024
The White Album
The White Album No, this isn’t about the Beatles 1968 album The Beatles, which also has the parenthetic subtitle White Album. That collection was [...]
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06, 2024
Cities and Suburbs
Cities, Suburbs and Local Shopping Centres I live in Canberra, and in some respects I can claim to live in an ideal neighbourhood. My [...]
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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
Lincoln Rhyme
Lincoln Rhyme Twenty-five years ago, I saw a film advertised, a thriller with actors Denzel Washington and Angelina Jolie. I might not have paid [...]
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05, 2024
Transitions
Transitions It seems like the very distant past, but when I was a student of geology in my final years of high school, I [...]
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05, 2024
Monkey
DD35 – Monkey What defines a children’s classic book? One published more than fifty years ago and still regarded as ‘great’? Or from more [...]
