Katy Gallagher ineligible!
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe High Court has just found Katy Gallagher to be ineligible to sit as a federal parliamentarian. At least four others are now almost certain to follow. I have harped on this endlessly, but...
Author: Daniel Stepniak
‘Night Train To Lisbon’
Reading Time: 3 minutesWilling to settle for a quiet Sunday night movie about a Swiss professor who breaks out of his staid routine and has a life changing experience, we ended up with so much more, watching...
Update on Cardinal Pell’s Pending Trial
Reading Time: < 1 minuteIn a directions hearing this morning, Victorian County Court Judge Sue Pullen and the parties agreed that the charges on which Cardinal Pell was committed to stand trial be split and addressed in two...
What just happened to Cardinal Pell? What’s next?
Reading Time: 2 minutesToday, Victorian Magistrate Belinda Wallington committed Cardinal George Pell to stand trial on a number of child sex offence charges, while also ruling that there was insufficient evidence for him to stand trial on...
‘The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society’
Reading Time: 2 minutesThis charming 2018 British comedy/drama, set during and but largely immediately after World War II, is based on a 2008 novel of the same name, written by Mary Anne Shaffer and Annie Barrows. This...
Our once admired and respected public leaders.
Reading Time: 3 minutesIt doesn’t seem that very long ago that corruption, cheating and reprehensible behaviour by public figures was something that we heard about in overseas news. We prided ourselves on the integrity of our political,...
‘Iris’
Reading Time: 2 minutesIn ‘Iris’ (or ‘In the shadow of Iris’ as it is known in England and therefore called by most critics) an attractive young woman stages her own kidnaping, demanding a substantial ransom from her...
Lou Doillon, ‘Places’
Reading Time: < 1 minuteUnmistakeable, French born, Lou Doillon is clearly multi-talented. At 35 years of age she can look back on successful careers as a fashion model, actor, artist and multi-instrumentalist, composer and singer. Her 2013...
‘The Lobster’
Reading Time: 2 minutesBrowsing through the latest list of films available through ‘SBS on demand’, I came across ‘The Lobster’ a 2015 dystopian black-comedy/drama set in the near future. The main storyline is that the laws of...
‘The Fortress’, S.A. Jones
Reading Time: 3 minutesI was intrigued to read about ‘The Fortress’, a new novel said to explore the concept of challenging misogyny and male oppression of women through exposure to a society dominated by women. My interest...