Comments & Opinion

My comments and quips on everything from sports to world politics, as seen in the pages of various journals.

2009

Living in the 90s

1989: The Other Year that Rocked the World

The Canberra Times - Monday column
Since April 2007, I've had a popular weekly column in The Canberra Times. Here are some highlights from the first three months. Later columns are gradually being placed on the Wishful Thinking blog.

June 25, 2007: No joking matter
June 18, 2007: Rock snobs the worst
June 11, 2007: Club 40 never looked so good
May 21, 2007: Bjorn to be a mystery
May 14, 2007: Granting her immortality
April 30, 2007: Dangerous vego radicals
April 16, 2007: The Sandy Syndrome
April 9, 2007: The heroes of our time

2006

Respect for a pair of stayers
(now-legendary article comparing the Australian Prime Minister, John Howard, to one of the nation's top celebrities)

The Doctor is not In

2004

Back to the Decade of Distaste

If I could rewrite the past...

Letter to Steve Irwin

The Other Greatest Show on Earth

2003

We can be heroes... but what we need now is a good bitch

Free trade and TV quotas - it's a worry

Zen and the Art of Hula Hooping
from ABC Sport Monthly
PDF (Portable Document Format) file, can be reread using Adobe Acrobat (available free from Adobe).

2001

A Short Festival on Egotism

I'm Sure They're All Out to Get Me

Survivor Rigged? Of course it is!

Star Trek - Prigs in Space

2000

10 Reasons to be Glad the 90s are Over

No Stars Over Australia

Paralympics Stars: The Equal of Freeman and Thorpe

1998

Ignorance is Bliss