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by Daniel Stepniak · Published 13 March 2018 · Last modified 4 October 2023
Reading Time: < 1 minuteI just finished reading Margaret Atwood’s latest, as-ever fine, and perhaps most accessible book, Alias Grace. I was hooked from the start and remained so for all of the book’s 467 pages. The story...
by Daniel Stepniak · Published 12 March 2018 · Last modified 4 October 2023
Reading Time: 2 minutesIn the context of a fading voyeuristic and moralistic public debate of the Australian Deputy Prime Minister’s extra marital affair, Sarah Vaughan’s new novel, Anatomy of a Scandal invites the reader to further consider the many...
by Daniel Stepniak · Published 11 March 2018 · Last modified 5 April 2019
Reading Time: 2 minutesWhat a complex, original and unpredictable fantasy drama. We can’t stop thinking about it, so we continue to discuss its many threads and attractions. Awarded this year’s Best Picture Academy Award, ‘The Shape...
by Daniel Stepniak · Published 7 March 2018 · Last modified 28 March 2019
Reading Time: < 1 minuteIt is not often that you hear applause at the end of a film screening. Today’s matinee screening of ‘Finding Your Feet’ provided one such experience. It is a star-studded feel-good movie about endings...
by Daniel Stepniak · Published 16 February 2018 · Last modified 31 March 2019
Reading Time: 2 minutesOur federal politicians appear not to comprehend the crucial distinction between codes of conduct such as the Statment of Ministerial Standards and laws proscribing behaviour. The Statement of Ministerial Standards sets out general principles...
by Daniel Stepniak · Published 16 February 2018 · Last modified 31 March 2019
Reading Time: 2 minutesMalcolm Turnbull needs to rethink his amendment to the 2003 Statement of Ministerial Standards. (See link below) He also owes Barnaby Joyce an apology for the unnecessary, inappropriate and judgmental public statement on the...
AUSTRALIAN POLITICS / RELIGION
by Daniel Stepniak · Published 14 February 2018 · Last modified 31 March 2019
Reading Time: < 1 minuteMy responses to a Sydney Morning Herald article on churches lobbying for increased protection of freedom of religion. Presumably these same churches will also support legislation entrenching the freedom from religion rights of those (whether non-mainstream...
by Daniel Stepniak · Published 14 February 2018 · Last modified 31 March 2019
Reading Time: 2 minutesOur federal politicians appear not to comprehend the crucial distinction between codes of conduct and laws proscribing behaviour. A commentary on the issue of whether Australia’s Deputy Prime Minister, Barnaby Joyce is in breach...
by Daniel Stepniak · Published 14 February 2018 · Last modified 31 March 2019
Reading Time: < 1 minuteIn response to New York Times story on 17 January 2018 The test administered to President Trump appears to be one of a number of tests used to gain an indication of cognitive capacity...
by Daniel Stepniak · Published 14 February 2018 · Last modified 2 April 2019
Reading Time: 3 minutesA commentary arguing that Minister Dutton’s criticism of sentences imposed by judges is inappropriate and undesirable. See Report by The Guardian on 15 January 2018 Rule of law is a principle that needs to be...
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