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REALITY TV: A phenomenon whose lure I had resisted until late last year when, in my search for shows...

By Sydney Smith

LATELY I'VE BEEN haggling over money with Terry. I tell him that I'm quite prepared to give him one...

By Louis Nowra

I WAS NERVOUS and sweating and my stomach was churning. I couldn't help babbling out stupid questions. "So what...

By Geoff Thompson

MANY THINGS CHANGED changed for me on November 7, 1991. I was ten and watching Magic Johnson speak at...

AUGUST 31, 2003: After three and a half years of attempting Mission Impossible – post-war reconstruction to build pluralist...

IT WAS THE summer of 1969. I had just scraped through my first year at the University of Belgrade....

By Nikola Gurovic

CHINA SHINES. IT radiates possibility. If it were a fashion it would be the new black. My problem is...

By Peter Ellingsen

WRITER FRANK MOORHOUSE has said that Queensland's Gold Coast is the perfect destination for an annual nervous breakdown. The...

By Matthew Condon

WHEN FORMULA ONE ‘supremo' Max Mosley successfully sued Britain's News of the World (NoW) for its invasion of his ‘privacy' in...

I AM OF course no stranger to celebrity. "Famous name," the lady at the library greets me when I...

By Michael Wilding

I'M THINKING OF of a long weekend in Margaret River, of a heater for the lounge room. I'm thinking...

By Rachel Robertson

AS BARACK OBAMA never tires of saying, America is a country where ‘ordinary people can do extraordinary things'. In...