——————————————————————————– Pub: Sydney Morning Herald Pubdate: 22-Aug-2009 Edition: First Section: News and Features Subsection: Opinion Page: 9 Wordcount: 789 Take it or leave it, Sydney: your ticket to Tiger town Elizabeth Farrelly What is it about this town? Not so long ago, we had trams. Sydney’s network (see the Museum of Sydney’s current show) was […]
———————————————————- Pub: Sydney Morning Herald Pubdate: 20-Aug-2009 Edition: First Section: News and Features Subsection: Opinion Page: 17 Wordcount: 733 Intervention turned our backs on reconciliation Patrick Dodson is the founding director of the Indigenous Policy and Dialogue Research Unit at the University of NSW, to be launched at a ceremony in Sydney tonight. Elizabeth Farrelly’s […]
——————————————————————————– Pub: Sydney Morning Herald Pubdate: 13-Aug-2009 Edition: First Section: News and Features Subsection: Opinion Page: 15 Wordcount: 813 Babylonian fantasy land emerges from reservoir Elizabeth Farrelly The Oxford Street site had been derelict for yonks and tantalising in its mystery – was it a servo? park? reservoir? – with barely glimpsable underground caverns that, […]
——————————————————————————– Pub: Sydney Morning Herald Pubdate: 06-Aug-2009 Edition: First Section: News and Features Subsection: Opinion Page: 13 Wordcount: 805 Make climbing the Rock an initiation rite for every Australian Elizabeth Farrelly ‘Yeah, uh-uh, it’s like, really … hard … work.” The thin girl with stringy black hair is panting into the mobile that is her […]
———————————————————— Pub: Sydney Morning Herald Pubdate: 30-Jul-2009 Edition: First Section: News and Features Subsection: Opinion Page: 11 Wordcount: 819 Mile after mile of big fat nothing Elizabeth Farrelly Terra nullius it clearly wasn’t, not even by honest mistake. Terra vacuus maybe. Or vacua, since it’s feminine. In fact, I’d probably go with vacua vacua, like […]
——————————————————————————– Pub: Sydney Morning Herald Pubdate: 23-Jul-2009 Edition: First Section: News and Features Subsection: Opinion Page: 13 Wordcount: 745 A fast city that’s warm and fuzzy ELIZABETH FARRELLY Here’s what I think: men do stupid things fast, women do stupid things slowly. It’s an opinion formed slowly over years of watching people drive. But I […]
——————————————————————————– Pub: Sydney Morning Herald Pubdate: 18-Jul-2009 Edition: First Section: Spectrum Subsection: The Essay Page: 12 Wordcount: 2061 The fat of the land society Elizabeth Farrelly Obesity is big business but all the inquiries, conferences and multimillion-dollar campaigns miss the obvious point: we must exercise self-discipline and eat less, writes Elizabeth Farrelly. “I ADORE eating […]
——————————————————————————– Pub: Sydney Morning Herald Pubdate: 16-Jul-2009 Edition: First Section: News and Features Subsection: Opinion Page: 15 Wordcount: 848 Judge a book by distance it covers Elizabeth Farrelly My local bookseller is closing down and moving to Mauritius. I feel bad about this because it’s my fault not Mauritius, the other bit. For years, without […]
Pub: Sydney Morning Herald Pubdate: 09-Jul-2009 Edition: First Section: News and Features Subsection: Opinion Page: 13 Wordcount: 854 White-coated warriors take our breath away ELIZABETH FARRELLY The climate debate, like the planet, is warming. As climate concern moves in from fringe to orthodoxy, the sceptical rump amps it up. And although debate ought to be […]
—————————————————————————— Pub: Sydney Morning Herald Pubdate: 02-Jul-2009 Edition: First Section: News and Features Subsection: Opinion Page: 11 Wordcount: 848 CORRECTION! Critter cullers turn our lives into roadkill Elizabeth Farrelly The word “paihamu”, meaning “excellent forager”, is said to be Maori for brushtail possum. But, as you will immediately see, the name which clearly postdates the […]
