Pub: Sydney Morning Herald Pubdate: Thursday 11th of February 2010 Edition: First Section: News and Features Subsection: Opinion Page: 11 Wordcount: 885 People who don’t want to live in glass houses should throw stones ELIZABETH FARRELY All right, two letters in the Herald last week mean I have to spell it out. Alan Miller is […]
Pub: Sydney Morning Herald Pubdate: 14-Jan-2010 Edition: First Section: News and Features Subsection: Opinion Page: 13 Wordcount: 883 Never mind the nudity, where’s your bike helmet? ELIZABETH FARRELLY Cathy Duder, the New Zealand police officer who stopped two naked cyclists at the flashy beach resort of Whangamata just before Christmas, let them off with a […]
Pub: Sydney Morning Herald Pubdate: 21-Jan-2010 Edition: First Section: News and Features Subsection: Opinion Page: 13 Wordcount: 874 Sex, crime and vengeance: why the world fell in love with Larsson Elizabeth Farrelly Do you suffer from freckles?” asks the ad. Pippi Longstocking marches right in and tells the shop lady “No.” “But my dear child,” […]
Pub: Sydney Morning Herald Pubdate: 28-Jan-2010 Edition: First Section: News and Features Subsection: Opinion Page: 11 Wordcount: 843 Lost for words in the universe of expanding English ELIZABETH FARRELLY I’m cultivating the knack of being diametrically out of whack with public or market opinion. It’s a potentially dangerous pursuit, considering my line of work, but […]
Pub: Sydney Morning Herald Pubdate: 04-Feb-2010 Edition: First Section: News and Features Subsection: Opinion Page: 15 Wordcount: 875 Hurry to the Slurry, a grey area where stuff gets done Elizabeth Farrelly Just years ago Dolour Darcy, from Ruth Park’s The Harp in the South, made “getting out of Surry Hills” her life’s ambition. After that […]
Pub: Sydney Morning Herald Pubdate: 13-Feb-2010 Edition: First Section: Spectrum Subsection: The Essay Page: 12 Wordcount: 2471 A sore point with modern medicine WELLBEING Elizabeth Farrelly Chronic pain is Australia’s forgotten disease, despite its huge economic and personal toll. It’s time to do something about it, argues Elizabeth Farrelly. PAIN is something most of us […]
Pub: Sydney Morning Herald Pubdate: 18-Feb-2010 Edition: First Section: News and Features Subsection: Opinion Page: 19 Wordcount: 877 How society turned modern men into bank managers Elizabeth Farrelly I have a male friend – safety demands his anonymity – who declared straight-faced the other day that just being a man is heroic. And yes, he […]
Pub: Sydney Morning Herald Pubdate: 25-Feb-2010 Edition: First Section: News and Features Subsection: Opinion Page: 15 Wordcount: 967 Keating: the new bandmaster leading our mini Manhattan Elizabeth Farrelly It’s Keating’s show all right. Top to toe, Barangaroo is now wholly Keating’s baby. If any doubts lingered as to his paternity, Tuesday evening’s packed performance removed […]
Pub: Sydney Morning Herald Pubdate: 27-Feb-2010 Edition: First Section: News and Features Subsection: Page: 7 Wordcount: 702 Now for the hard part: public spaces of quality not quantity ELIZABETH FARRELLY IF ARCHITECTURE were like Olympic snowboarding, and each trick rated on its degree of difficulty, what Lend Lease and Richard Rogers are attempting at Barangaroo […]
Pub: Sydney Morning Herald Pubdate: 04-Mar-2010 Edition: First Section: News and Features Subsection: Opinion Page: 17 Wordcount: 849 Here’s a challenge: start raging against the dumb machine ELIZABETH FARRELLY All that February heat quite put me in the mood for heresy. I’m thinking something nice and threatening, not like last year’s festival of supposedly “dangerous” […]
