
Cory Bernardi’s homophobic slurs reflect someone quickly losing relevance
As a nation, we this week cemented a new and exciting Australian value: progressiveness. It’s a value many suspected has defined our...

Time out: The increasing respectability of the adult gap year
When it was announced that the ABC’s The Book Club will finish after the December 19 Christmas special, host Jennifer Byrne gave an intriguing response...

Why Kevin Spacey playing the gay card is so despicable
It’s the sort of behaviour that’d make even the machiavellian Frank Underwood bristle. In what is the worst ‘coming out’ I’ve seen,...

Tiger’s wrist-slap highlights Australia’s problem with misuse of intimate images
For all the benefits of the digital age, it has also provided one of the most disturbing new two-word phrases of our...

‘Me too’ hashtag highlights only a small part of a larger problem
When social media became a sea of two small, devastating words in recent days it unearthed strong emotions. Actress Alyssa Milano encouraged...

Lisa Wilkinson epitomises a glaring problem with Australian media
It feels premature to label somebody a national treasure before they’re a pensioner and have fully earned the accolade. But if anyone...