World Series Urban Violence
(1) It's all down to the cunning evil racist manipulator HoWARd, who used his mincing minion Jonesy to inflame the ignorant, white bogan surfie meathead...
What is Curves?
One of my relatives, just retired, has a serious and longstanding weight problem, complicated by a bad leg as a result of a car accident...
Albert Jacka VC
Albert Jacka was possibly the outstanding footsoldier and front-line leader of men in the Great War. It is possible to imagine equally impressive achievements but...
The Diggers’ Club and Me
Jen often wants me to tell her a story. But it isn't that easy. I'm not one of those blokes who can spin a yarn...
Isolated and angry?
"Isolated and angry" an apt descriptor of Far South Sydney's [pen]insular white trash? Err, no it actually refers to residents of geographical middle Sydney. Of...
If you’re so smart, fix your mortgage
This week's column. My father sometimes responded to my cheekier moments with an old Jewish saying that greatly amused him "If you're so smart, how...
A saga of sods
Families surround us with symmetry. Echoes. Half-understood parallels. You realise it more and more as you get older. Like when you rebuke your child for...