Looking back over the last few years, it seems Australian police are increasingly being attacked – even murdered – as they go about their work.

Make no mistake, frontline cops have a tough gig. Lousy hours, mediocre pay, routinely abused, spat at, punched, kicked, and sometimes run over, stabbed, or shot. They have also had to deal with an increase in severity and pre...

It was one hundred years ago this year that the great Russian ballerina Anna Pavlova toured Australia and New Zealand for the first time. In 1926 she was a sensation, and the talk of the entire nation. The result was that she inspired the dessert we still know today as a ‘pavlova’.

However, the pronunciations of the ballerina and the dessert are not the same. The danc...

‘You’ve come a long way, baby,’ said the slogan which positioned Virginia Slims as the cigarette for the emancipated American woman in the 1960s. And the ads were so effective that the brand was subsequently trialled in Australia. But women here evidently hadn’t made quite the same strides. Indeed, despite gaining suffrage decades earlier than their septic sisters, in the 19...

Ethan Hawke is an extraordinary figure. He has made straightforward Hollywood classics like Training Day but he also comes out with those films (Before Sunrise, Before Sunset, Before Midnight) directed by Richard Linklater and co-starring the French actress Julie Delpy which trace the anatomy of an alternative lifetime. Well, now he’s made...

In his recent momentous address to the nation and the world, President Trump provided a definitive status report on Operation Epic Fury. Lauding the military for achieving more in weeks than prior administrations had in decades, he stressed the essence of the operation: to stop the theocratic terrorists fulfilling exactly what they have chanted endlessly, ‘Death to the Great...