‘Special K’ trade mark dispute grabs headlines, but what about ‘The Big Kokk’?
In 2015, Australian tennis player Thanasi Kokkinakis was riding high. Only 19 years old, he’d made it into the Top 100, and his prodigious talent was…
In 2015, Australian tennis player Thanasi Kokkinakis was riding high. Only 19 years old, he’d made it into the Top 100, and his prodigious talent was…
Recently, a small, exclusive group of taut, fit looking young people with large disposable incomes attended the Fyre Festival in the Bahamas. They could have gone…
This is a story about the restoration of dignity for one person. However, for Legal Aid to sell this outcome as a happy ending for everyone in…
For this Australian correspondent, English newspapers are often a source of joy. Their headlines really do sell papers. However, this time I was not amused. The…
There is real life, and then there is fantasy. ‘Real life’ is being fatter than before Christmas, thanks to a January diet interrupted by bouts of…
Wherever we are, listening to the radio, watching television or in front of a screen, there is someone telling us the likely result, before the event…
When I was little, after a long day skiing, I stood in line with my parents to catch the Merritt’s chairlift down to Thredbo Village. There…
Recent publicity over flight disasters concerning Malaysia Airlines, Air Asia and Germanwings (the low cost carrier of the Lufthanser Group) can cause our minds to dwell…
The Block is a reality television series in which couples renovate apartments from a diabolical state to sartorial glory. The properties are then sold at auction. The…
The joke was on me. Punk’d as if in an episode of Ashton Kutcher’s Candid Camera style television show. I had thought I was cool. I knew…