I love conflict, (said no one ever*). I live in a small block of flats – just six units. We’re a happy crew, and the bonds grew during the pandemic. We started a WhatsApp group to stay in touch and support each other during lockdowns. A new kid...
Facebook has announced it will rebrand its parent company to Meta to align with its ambitions to build the ‘metaverse’, an extended reality environment for social and business engagement. In some ways, the rebrand makes sense. Facebook is now just one of...
I started a week’s leave on Friday and spent the day watching the live feed of former NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian giving evidence at the Independent Commission Against Corruption, (ICAC). It was gripping. I’ll leave it to the Commissioners to make their...
This photo by Anil Prabhaker has been doing the rounds of Instagram and Twitter since early 2020. CNN described the moment as the orangutan ‘stretching out its hand to help a man out of snake-infested waters’. The photographer (a geologist), wrote,...
What do we expect from our media? There’s a fierce contemporary dialogue about the news media, and I don’t think journalists are coming out on top. Nine Newspapers economics editor Ross Gittins talked about journalism’s trust problem in a...
Last week, my neighbour and I puzzled over this flyer from the council – about waste collection, always a touchy topic. As you can see from the picture, they’re changing the frequency of waste collection. A visual guide instructed us which bins to put out each...
