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October 25, 2025

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Jubilation and joy for Joyce

I’ve had a soft spot for the people at Qantas ever since they ferried my pregnant mum, Queenie, home from Brisbane after a one-night stand with my love-rat father, who never gave me a second’s thought.

Cashing in on YouTube’s tingles

Climate Council ignores my diluvian disappointment

The October 2022 flood was a good flood, but by no means the biggest —...

Climate Council ignores my diluvian disappointment

Brett Whiteley: art, music, and a life untamed

Brett Whiteley: art, music, and a life untamed

It’s not fair: I was left utterly shattered when I was denied a ride to...

Exploiting AI for maximum treats and minimum stress

The Cologne calamity that created a classic

On choosing the bigger life

The Crown vs the Clown

The Boss calls time on Glory Days

Murder and melody: butcherbird serenade

The assassin and his victim. Factional friends are the ones that stab you in the front.

Cabinet unity to a dogfight in the kennel

Battered but never beaten: Peter Nixon’s remarkable journey

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Frost, fire and fortitude: a season at Baddaginnie Run

I’ve been nursing The Boss through this trying time of late sunrises, so he doesn’t...

Rocket Woman: nine months for a dog walk

Being lost in space is a bad idea, for people and for dogs.

Suni and Butch managed to fill in time, a long way from a dog walk in the bush. Here they are, after a space walk — a consolation prize — last September.

Small talk to small screens: conversational extinction?

I am constantly trying to remind The Boss that I am more evolved than he...

Canine commando: Manic, the $8 wonder dog

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Pup culture: a century of dogged devotion

I share The Boss’s affection for The New Yorker, but for different reasons: I like...

Bunker down for the End of the World sale

I enjoy watching all the new ways humans like to spend their money, particularly when...

Whips and goatskins: losing your head for love.

While I have occasionally referred to the young missus’s Labrador pup as “the Black Torpedo”,...

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By all accounts, Roly Hunt had a soft spot for cats, in preference to dogs,...