The first thing that strikes you when you arrive in Australia is how racist this place is, and yet how committed many Au…
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The trouble with #WhiteHistoryMonth is that it is not history yet
Today, the theft of Aboriginal children – including babies taken from the birth table – is now more widespread than at a…
Who’s Been Sleeping in My House?
South African television is fascinating. Every evening, as part of an ongoing anthropological investigation into the wor…
JM Coetzee’s Cricketing Life
It was with some intrigue that my J.M. Coetzee google alert recently informed me that the elusive author had published s…
Colonialism
A satirical film made by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation in 1986. Worth seeing again. It should also be the dvd…
'The Most Phenomenal Finale'
I don’t watch much rugby these days, but the final moments of the cup final the 2011 Edinburgh IRB Rugby Seve…
Blinded by Red Ribbons
And what has Mr. Bono been doing lately? Here he is, frolicking with a gala-flawless red satin ribbon. (Caption:”U…
Bangs: A Fine Mess
Bangs, the Australian rapper of Sudanese descent, who has made mediocrity into an art form, makes a mess of Christmas. (…
G'day Mate
“The thing that overwhelms most is the level of professionalism of native Africans in knowing how to serve a bottle of w…
Animal Kingdom
It will get ridiculous over the next month. For now the price goes to goes to the Australian media company, Optus. Thi…