At a Gallery I Snap Blue, lacing through Dark trees – Girls race from school Into the sun.   II Held She deploys space, He measures time; Love’s configured in her face, And in their rhyme.   III Leaving Lloyd Rees (to Arda) All forms were lost in colour then in light; But forms persist, rocks in a drifting sea. These tides of…

Mary Magdalene I read Anne Lastman’s letter on “The historical Mary”, (News Weekly, April 7, 2018) with great interest. When we consider the Easter story, we are looking across two thousand years at the most stupendous event in history. It is a unique event. The Second Person of the Holy and Blessed Trinity took human form, died for our sins, and took His…

FOREST NOISES AT NIGHT Crashing Boars Butt on y’ lip Discs AD1208 $24.95 (or $12.50 for good behaviour) Reviewed by Sebastian Gunlighter Where have these guys been all my life? Presumably wandering around in the forests of the world capturing the sounds that have been their inspiration. To anyone who has been in a forest at night, the similarities in…

THE TATTOOIST OF AUSCHWITZ by Heather Morris Echo Publishing, Richmond Paperback: 270 pages Price: AUD$29.99 Reviewed by Michael E. Daniel In 2003 screenwriter Heather Morris was introduced to Lale Sokolov, an elderly Jewish man, after being told that he may “have a story worth telling”. The result is an extraordinary Holocaust survival story: that of Lale and his girlfriend Gita.…

SILENT INVASION: China’s Influence in Australia by Clive Hamilton Hardie Grant Books, Melbourne Paperback: 376 pages Price: AUD$25.95 Reviewed by Jeffry Babb There is no other nation like China, and never has been. Experts have been predicting the collapse of the Chinese economy for the last 40 years, yet China still keeps growing. Will U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs cause…

While Africa’s Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) aims to eliminate tariffs between African nations by 90 per cent, it also allows member countries to protect their infant industries and certain other industries and apply trade remedies.   Further, the protocol on trade in services allows exemptions for security and other reasons.     Continental agreement to eliminate 90 per cent of tariffs  …