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• Society

  Beersheba’s great race

  WHILE enjoying the Melbourne Cup today, we should spare a thought for another great race that took place 88 years ago —...

• Education

  Teaching … a primer

  TEACHERS and students, syllabuses and courses, and teaching and its problems — the real and the imagined — continue to hit the...

• Article

  Trafalgar … 2005

  “Order the signal, Hardy.” “Aye, aye sir.” “Hold on, that’s not what I dictated to the signal officer. What’s the meaning of...

• Education

  The Picasso in all of us

  HIS HONOUR THE BEAK: So, your client crashed the vehicle because he couldn’t tell which was the clutch, the brake or the...

• Education

  Ms Wriedt’s mushrooms

  POLITICIABS, bureaucrats and the commentariat should pay more attention to George Orwell. Look at his observation in Shooting an Elephant — Politics...

• Article

  An unhealthy obsession

  P J O’ROURKE is a journalist-cum-writer — and, no, that’s not necessarily a tautology — from the gonzo “school” made famous by...

• Article

  The Thinking Reed

  Man is only a reed, the weakest thing in nature; but he is a thinking reed. Pascal, Pensees (1670) section 6, number...

• Article

  The contradictions of Jihad

  THE WAR ON TERROR — which some readers might prefer to call the so-called war on terror — – has evoked a...

• Article

  Monty Python and the holey rail

  AN ABIDING Mainlanders’ cliché about Tasmania and Tasmanians is the one to do with mental slowness, lethargy and a Hicksvillian approach to...

• Forestry

  It’s not over

  THERE HAVE been prominent media reports of claims by political notables, including the State Premier and the nation’s PM, that the newly-signed...