The fifth Governor of the Colony of New South Wales, whose name adorns a bank, a radio network, a Port city further to the north of that state and a university, Lachlan Macquarie, condoned and ordered massacres of the First Nations Peoples, but at the same time, came into conflict…

Not the weekend just gone but the weekend before that, my family held a gathering for my father’s birthday, which was last week. My brother, sister-in-law, niece, nephew and my brother’s mother-in-law and brother-in-law came over. My nephew got into a foul mood and my brother later said that he…

When I was 12, I went on a holiday to a small seaside town, with my family. The time of the holiday was pivotal for me, as the week before was hell for me at school, but was relieved only a guy in Year Ten to whom I was grateful…

As a background to this story, a man flew into the city where he had grown up for a 20 year school reunion, hired a Toyota Aurion and checked into a motel near the venue where the reunion was being held. Unbeknownst to him at the time, his high school…

As the night of May 21, 2022 progressed and it was likely that the Liberal National Coalition would not be given another term of government, I felt a great sense of relief and hope. …

If you asked me to list the people I find most deplorable, I would mention, the 28th and 30 Australian Prime Ministers, the current Federal Leader of the Opposition, the former occupant of the White House whose first wife died last Friday and the pilot of the Enola Gay. The…

24 years ago, I remember a cartoon in a newspaper that had a right-wing politician and a left-wing civil libertarian in bed side by side. Similarly, I remember a cartoon that showed Hitler and Stalin with Hitler dressed as a groom and Stalin as a bride, with their unholy alliance. …

I will begin this with a Public Service Announcement (PSA). If you comment anywhere that transwomen are mentally ill men, you are going the right way towards me reporting and then blocking you, on this platform and on social media. I had somebody make such an offensive comment and I…

I remember reading an article by a Chinese-Australian writer who asked when people would simply be able to be referred to as Australians without reference to their ethnic background. Now, we see transphobic comments from J K Rowling in response to the term “People who menstruate,” and asking what they…