Ladies and Gentlemen of the class of ‘97… wear sunscreen. If I could offer you only one tip for the future, sunscreen would be it. The long term benefits of sunscreen have been proved by scientists whereas the rest of my advice has no basis more reliable than my own meandering experience...

A century from now, our handwriting may only be legible to experts. For some, that is already the case. But writer Kitty Burns Florey says the art of handwriting is declining so fast that ordinary, joined-up script may become as hard to read as a medieval manuscript. "When your great-great-gran...

I wouldn't be getting your theology from science fiction if I were you. Then again, I doubt too many people these days would even pick up on the religious allegories in science fiction.  They might perhaps, if like David Ploz, "a lax, non-Hebrew-speaking Jew", they read the Bible...

The Obama mantra: kill the kids, free the killers, and prefer murderers to your friends: Oh dear. Gordon Brown has landed in Washington to discover that there is to be no joint press conference with Barack Obama, none of the treatment that Bush, Clinton and Bush routinely gave visiting British Prime...

This essay will only interest a few of my readers. The editor of a series of theological commentaries notes the opposition to the series from scholars in the field of "biblical studies" and the disconnect between "biblical scholars" and "theologians." My favourite parag...

I don't think many have paid attention to the passing of federal same sex legislation in Australia, plus all the associated amendments to other laws which come into effect today.  Nor have they really thought through the impacts, like the government - bureaucrats -  given increased p...

Former Weather Underground leaders Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn - Obama's neighbour and terrorist pal, and his even more odious terrorist wife - are currently promoting their new book Race Course Against White Supremacy.  Zombie posts another fine photo essay on one of their San Francisc...

MAYBE it was too soon, perhaps their grief was still too raw to be revealed publicly, but for whatever reason, many of the survivors of the Black Saturday bushfires chose to stick close to home yesterday rather than attend the memorial service at Melbourne's Rod Laver Arena. Maybe it was because...

MAYBE it was too soon, perhaps their grief was still too raw to be revealed publicly, but for whatever reason, many of the survivors of the Black Saturday bushfires chose to stick close to home yesterday rather than attend the memorial service at Melbourne's Rod Laver Arena. Maybe it was because...

Why is a barely-there-been-and-gone, failed Liberal Opposition leader from so-long-ago-he's-barely-remembered giving political advice slagging off like anyone cares what he thinks? Oh wait, he's writing for Fairfax. In "a space for people of influence to have their say."  By ...