Aussies like governments who prioritise their health, as Premier Mark McGowan objectively demonstrated with his 91 per cent approval rating.
Andrew Miller
Life will always be unfair, but the instinct to make it less so is surely the best offering of humankind.
Perhaps my perception of the world was distorted, and my fear that western civilisation might be stumbling into idiocracy was just bad bokeh.
I was running late again — this time, ironically, for a funeral. The dead don’t care about punctuality, but I was in a hurry.
Timing is everything in politics, as in life.
I was stuck at the gate on a sardine plane, wearing an N95 mask to filter the stale expired air of 200 other sweaty, impatient humans.
Check out the bathroom facilities at your public hospital to see how much politicians care.
While the flame of bipartisanship still flickers, hope remains that lies, greed and moral relativism might not destroy our foundations.
Like a Washington solar flare, President Donald Trump is going off again, interfering with our mass communications.
How a trip to the movies reinforced what children really want from grown-ups.
Later, the penny drops that life on land also has its ebb and flow - vigilance and situational awareness are useful; especially when everything has been smooth sailing for a while.
Bad things can happen to anyone, but it feels particularly egregious when misfortune affects the innocent, the well-meaning and the self-deprecating. The decent folk who look out for others — you know who.
God rest ye merry gentlemen, let nothing ye dismay.
The pricing of tuition due to our federal ‘job-ready’ education policy places even less value on most humanities - at a time when we need an understanding of history, philosophy and the arts more than ever.
No-one likes a budget cut but it burns when the main justification is a sustained lack of interest in your projects.
This new legislation to limit access to social media for under 16s is not a bad thing - they don’t need those apps.
While working as a doctor in America during the Clinton years, I came to feel that the US was a bit like Asia on steroids.
Recently, we heard an outbreak of global mansplaining, because young women were asserting that if lost in the woods, they would rather be in there with a wild bear than a random man.
Wars are popular only with those not in harm’s way. Those who profit politically or financially, rather than those whose families are being killed.
We have decided to try on an apartment for a while, to see if it fits. To see if we fit. But it’s made me realise on thing. We have so much stuff.
I trot up the steps to another home open, and stand to one side as another couple leave.
Healing can be like waiting for a plant to grow. As a middle-aged man at a crowded urinal might say, it will happen in its own time.
Imagine reading this, when suddenly some words go missing. A hole in a sentence here, then there. After a few minutes, an entire paragraph might disappear and your train of thought will be lost.
As complicated as things have become since we emerged from the primordial oceans and adapted to life on land, we are still mostly salt water on the inside.
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