Monthly Archives: August 2003

As I move through Stuart Macintyre’s new book, The History Wars, growing all the more absorbed and therefore more resentful that I haven’t time to finish it in a sitting, Geoffrey Blainey emerges with a sympathetic portrait.

My father reached his 77th birthday two weeks ago. I love him dearly and I don’t like to disagree with him but in the last few years he’s become obsessed by, what he calls, the blight of single mothers. It … Continue reading →

In the late 1800s, economist and avid gardener Vilfredo Pareto established that 80% of the land in Italy was owned by 20% of the population. While gardening he later observed that 20% of the peapods in his garden yielded 80% … Continue reading →

Just to make it all five Armadillos in a row, and to incidentally trumpet the continuing mainstream media impact of this site, following Ken Parish bursting into Margo’s web diary yesterday, yours truly has turned up in the Canberra Times … Continue reading →

Matt Price always a master at reporting the shenanigans at Parliament House has a short article in the Sunday Telegraph, which I stumbled upon by accident. The story focused on the Senate vote to increase the printing allowance of every … Continue reading →

Fount of blogospherical wisdom, Bargarz, points to the lamentable tendency for Simon Crean to emerge like some cheapjack, showbag Jack-in-the-box – roughly every fortnight – to report on his latest “gate’ discovery. “This is ethanolgate” he sonorously pronounced shortly before … Continue reading →