Autumn Morning The jetty is deserted in the sun. Warm light streams to the river-bed, catching the lines of feeding fish, bright on the warm sand, seen clearly through unruffled water, their movements matching the slow currents, threading the new growth over tyres, cables, cans, all shown lying still in growing weed, changing fast into the stuff of the river. Bars of gold…

Shorten and the class war Multimillionaire Warren Buffett once declared: “Actually, there’s been class warfare going on for the last 20 years, and my class has won. We’re the ones that have gotten our tax rates reduced dramatically.” However Bill Shorten, Albo and the rest of Labor’s New Class don’t come into this battle with their hands clean, nor can they cast the…

SOUNDS LIKE … by Onomatopoeia Crackly Discs CD001A Price: $12.50 (digital download $8.27) Reviewed by Tobias Eisteddfod (Sebastian Gunlighter is ill until further notice) If you never hear this recording, you’ll never know what it sounds like. Having said that, it remains merely to say that, if you do hear it, you’ll be none the wiser. On this CD, Crackly Discs, living up…

CHALICE OF LIBERTY: Protecting Religious Liberty in Australia by Frank Brennan, Michael A. Casey and Greg Craven Kapunda Press, Redland Bay Paperback: 110 pages Price: AUD$24.95 Reviewed by Michael Quinlan If it is possible to identify anything positive flowing from the postal poll on redefining marriage it might be that religious freedom was, at least, mentioned by politicians and in…

FREUD: The Making of an Illusion by Frederick Crews Profile Books, London Hardcover: 746 pages Price: AUD$54.99 Reviewed by Brian Coman The Royal Society, dating back to the 1660s, adopted as its motto the Latin phrase, Nullius in verba. The usual translation is “take no one’s word for it”. The founding members (who included Robert Boyle and Sir Christopher Wren)…

    If Australia can finance China’s Asian development bank, why don’t we create an Australian Infrastructure Investment Bank to develop our neighbouring Pacific island states?       Bipartisan agreement on new federal legislation to deter Beijing’s interference in Australian politics and economy is necessary and welcome. However, far greater defence spending and investment in developing our Pacific island neighbours will also…