Pub: Sydney Morning Herald Pubdate: 17-Mar-2011 Edition: First Section: News and Features Subsection: Opinion Page: 13 Wordcount: 896 Your chicks or your career? Do you really want what he’s having? ELIZABETH FARRELLY ‘Childcare!” yells the heckler from the rear stalls. “What about childcare?” “Childcare?” I hear myself say into the mike. “Maybe there’s a point […]
Pub: Sydney Morning Herald Pubdate: 24-Mar-2011 Edition: First Section: News and Features Subsection: Opinion Page: 11 Wordcount: 932 Once a jolly clever swagman tried in vain to help homeless ELIZABETH FARRELLY You don’t expect Australian charities to be winning international design awards. Then again, you mightn’t expect the world epicentre of supersize houses to tolerate […]
Pub: Sydney Morning Herald Pubdate: 31-Mar-2011 Edition: First Section: News and Features Subsection: Opinion Page: 17 Wordcount: 962 Pistol-packing pachyderms have other plans for O’Farrell ELIZABETH FARRELLY Barry O’Farrell says he believes in redemption. Better hang on to that. He may need it as he struggles and sweats through the NSW planning jungle, especially when […]
Pub: Sydney Morning Herald Pubdate: 02-Apr-2011 Edition: First Section: News Review Subsection: Page: 22 Wordcount: 1775 Secret agent of restraint THE ESSAY ELIZABETH FARRELLY Reviving the dusty virtue of meekness, honed by Ian Fleming’s 007, could help us lead leaner, greener and happier lives. It was a high point of my summer to read my […]
Pub: Sydney Morning Herald Pubdate: 07-Apr-2011 Edition: First Section: News and Features Subsection: Opinion Page: 11 Wordcount: 988 Don’t tarry, Barry, you need a plan ELIZABETH FARRELLY Typically, in this country, we expect Labor governments to have “visions” (some might say hallucinations) and to impose rules in order to achieve them, inviting charges of utopianism, […]
Pub: Sydney Morning Herald Pubdate: 14-Apr-2011 Edition: First Section: News and Features Subsection: Opinion Page: 11 Wordcount: 857 I love a sunburnt country – but the stupidity can be hard to stomach ELIZABETH FARRELLY Is it just me? OK, I know nothing about money. But I look at the biggest mining boom in history and […]
——————————————————————————– Pub: Sydney Morning Herald Pubdate: 21-Apr-2011 Edition: First Section: News and Features Subsection: Opinion Page: 15 Wordcount: 1009 Democracy is blocking intelligence ELIZABETH FARRELLY It may be, as one correspondent wrote last week, that advertising works on the “80/80 principle”, the assumption that 80 per cent of Australians have an IQ average of 80. […]
Pub: Sydney Morning Herald Pubdate: 28-Apr-2011 Edition: First Section: News and Features Subsection: Opinion Page: 11 Wordcount: 1096 Mystery dies when we don’t see ourselves as part of eternity ELIZABETH FARRELLY In the north wall of Durham Cathedral, just above a lovely 12th century arcade of interlocking sandstone arches, is one of the ugliest stained-glass […]
Pub: Sydney Morning Herald Pubdate: 05-May-2011 Edition: First Section: News and Features Subsection: Opinion Page: 13 Wordcount: 1118 Chummy with China, where cruelty is down to a fine art ELIZABETH FARRELLY Twitter, truth, art, torture, in that order. How weird that Twitter, which in normal Western life (with the possible exception of Obama’s election) seems […]
Pub: Sydney Morning Herald Pubdate: 12-May-2011 Edition: First Section: News and Features Subsection: Opinion Page: 11 Wordcount: 990 Think big but make it exciting ELIZABETH FARRELLY All right fine. I eat muesli. Worse, I like it. I also ride a bike and walk a lot. In fact the only habit on Paul Keating’s to-loathe list […]
