It’s a tale of an Australia which has disappeared – bourgeois, genteel (be-hatted and gloved), learned after its own fashion, but also full of patrician pro-communists. Continue reading
Posted in October 2014 …
Australian Catholic Lives by Edmund Campion
Campion’s subjects represent the gamut of being human. Continue reading
Decolonising Indigenous Australia
Irish and Irish-identified Australians, or Scots who might have voted ‘Yes’, will be interested to read Noel Pearson’s latest pungent Quarterly Essay for its take on the agonizingly slow process of Indigenous decolonisation. Continue reading
An Irish jig in a foreign land
there could be no doubt about it, we were hearing a very upbeat, lively Irish jig. Continue reading