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Reading Time: 4 minutesJanet Albrechtsen’s column in the current Weekend Australian warrants reading, if only to test the efficacy of your blood pressure medication. The target of her opinion piece is the #MeToo movement and associated implications...
by Daniel Stepniak · Published 8 December 2018 · Last modified 4 October 2023
Reading Time: 2 minutesA book to savour, and re-read with pleasure. Having just completed reading this book, I find much on which to reflect. This book tells the story of Count Rostov, a Russian nobleman, sentenced...
by Daniel Stepniak · Published 23 November 2018 · Last modified 27 March 2019
Reading Time: 2 minutesThat the President should disagree with the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court by insisting that American judges are not independent and either support or oppose the President, ought to come as a great...
by Daniel Stepniak · Published 23 November 2018 · Last modified 27 March 2019
Reading Time: < 1 minuteNews headlines over the last two days highlight the need to distinguish ‘public interest’ from ‘what may interest the public’. The saturation coverage of Renae Lawrence’s release from prison and her arrival in...
by Daniel Stepniak · Published 21 November 2018 · Last modified 1 April 2019
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe latest installment of the investigation into the death/murder of Jamal Khashoggi demonstrates why we shouldn’t simply dismiss Donald Trump as a comical fool. In declaring support for the Saudi government and choosing to...
by Daniel Stepniak · Published 17 November 2018 · Last modified 1 April 2019
Reading Time: < 1 minuteA commentary is disguised as front page news in the current The Weekend Australian. The issue itself is outlined in the attached news item. My brief comment is motivated by those who immediately jump...
by Daniel Stepniak · Published 7 November 2018 · Last modified 28 March 2019
Reading Time: < 1 minute‘The Little Death’ is a 2014 Australian film now freely available from SBS on demand. It is a very funny adult comedy about sex, and mostly about sexual fantasies not known or attractive to...
by Daniel Stepniak · Published 31 October 2018 · Last modified 13 August 2019
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe Bodyguard (Series 1) is a highly addictive British political/security drama/thriller television series. The fine and experienced actors are perfectly cast as the politicians, members of the security service or police force, assorted other...
by Daniel Stepniak · Published 25 October 2018 · Last modified 26 April 2019
Reading Time: 3 minutesThose flying between Perth and Alice Springs, have probably noticed some 19 radomes – giant white golf ball like structures housing radar antennas – just outside of Alice Springs. Such a glimpse into the...
by Daniel Stepniak · Published 22 October 2018 · Last modified 1 April 2019
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe availability of inexpensive and readily accessible travel for leisure and tourism appear to be endangering cultures, sights, artefacts, fauna and the flora that motivate such travel.Mass tourism may also be accused of accelerating...
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