An hour of my life stolen
Since some episodes are good and others bad, I could never see the point of being either a declared friend or enemy of Q&A. But...
Can cricketers do Rudd’s job for him?
Peter Roebuck, the Fairfax cricket writer, has joined Mike Atherton in suggesting a boycott of Sri Lanka. For England that means next year; for Australia,...
Last chance to weep for Iceland
'You go with the information you had...' I'm probably almost the last person to have seen Charles Ferguson's documentary Inside Job. But the film is...
Shorten and the cake
Three things emerged from qanda last night. The first was that Malcolm Turnbull is out of control, and thinks he can undermine Tony Abbott at...
Pinchgut 2010
Orpheus and Eurydice by Carlo Cignani (1628-1719) O everlasting gods! I see your lovely eyes and your beautiful face, and yet I cannot believe my...
The ‘raw, impassioned core’
A fertile collaboration A brief reflection, albeit belated, on the passing of Henryk Górecki won't be out of place in such a hive as ours...
Don’t cry, go and see Rigoletto!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kh0jOiz7pXk Joan Sutherland has passed on. Inevitably, obituarians are taking the opportunity to contend that she was the greatest soprano, or even the greatest singer,...