The Consolation of Joe Cinque
One of the books I read over the holiday break was Helen Garner's latest, Joe Cinque's Consolation. Like Garner's previous work The First Stone, Joe...
“Hell Has Harbour Views”
A big issue in the Australia-US FTA debate last year was the possible implications for local content on tv. It's reasonable to ask whether there...
Welfare to Work
Bureaucracy was arguably invented in Prussia, and German civil servants are justly reknowned for their impartiality. This apparently extends to cutting benefits to jobseekers refusing...
Ave, Iraq!
Good morning to all Troppo Armadillians on this last day of January! And I am finally out of my major revisions to my novel, Malvolio's...