Oh once I dwelt in my comfort zone I didn’t think outside the square. I pushed not at […]
Category: Language
The wild ride that is the coronacoaster continues to thunder along, generating a snappy new glossary as it […]
These articles were published in my column in The Hobart Mercury in 2003 and a version of the […]
I’ve been making a list of all the new words and phrases generated by the pandemic. Some instantly […]
There is a kind of Cult of Warmth which assumes that most people would prefer to live in […]
An audio version of this piece was broadcast on ABC Radio Sport some time in the early 2000s. […]
It’s NAIDOC Week, and if ever a major cultural event was in dire need of renaming, this is […]
See that quote above? It contains one of the best mixed metaphors I’ve seen in years. It was […]
Have you heard of brussels sprout-gate? I certainly hadn’t, until I read the other day in a celebrity […]
I wrote this not long after leaving Darwin to come and live in Hobart…. The love of palm […]