Pub: Sydney Morning Herald Pubdate: 25-Jun-2009 Edition: First Section: News and Features Subsection: Opinion Page: 13 Wordcount: 812 The pushy philistine formerly known as prince Elizabeth Farrelly How it warms the heart to know the Thousand Years War between the angels and the philistines is not Sydney’s alone. And yet how it bewilders the mind […]
Pub: Sydney Morning Herald Pubdate: 19-Jun-2009 Edition: First Section: News and Features Subsection: Insight Page: 9 Wordcount: 694 Everyone wins as kids divide lollies Australian Institute of Architects NSW Architecture Awards Elizabeth Farrelly THIS year’s crop of architecture awards is a classic example of what happens when a jury, suffering a serious attack of the […]
Pub: Sydney Morning Herald Pubdate: 18-Jun-2009 Edition: First Section: News and Features Subsection: Opinion Page: 13 Wordcount: 765 Danger of refuge being destroyed in Block battle ELIZABETH FARRELLY Perhaps the most wrenching moment in Bill Simon’s autobiography, Back On The Block, is when, as a young man, he meets the mother from whom he was […]
——————————————————————————– Pub: Sydney Morning Herald Pubdate: 13-Jun-2009 Edition: First Section: Spectrum Subsection: Arts & Entertainment Page: 16 Wordcount: 2112 Why me-ism blocks the way for women EQUALITY THE ESSAY Elizabeth Farrelly The world may be more ‘feminised’ but feminism has stalled. The selfishness of the movement is its weakness as well as its strength, writes […]
——————————————————————————- Pub: Sydney Morning Herald Pubdate: 11-Jun-2009 Edition: First Section: News and Features Subsection: Opinion Page: 13 Wordcount: 806 One Tuesday, two lessons about murky bilge politics ELIZABETH FARRELLY Writing about politics always feels much like guddling about in the bilges of some half-sunk prawn trawler. Occasionally you find something live and shining but mostly […]
——————————————————————————– Pub: Sydney Morning Herald Pubdate: 04-Jun-2009 Edition: First Section: News and Features Subsection: Opinion Page: 13 Wordcount: 847 Pandemic pandemonium: pass the paracetamol ELIZABETH FARRELLY Is that swine flu, would you say, or swine flew? Last Monday I collected the child from school, as you do, fully equipped with clothes change, chilled water and […]
Pub: Sydney Morning Herald Pubdate: 28-May-2009 Edition: First Section: News and Features Subsection: Opinion Page: 13 Wordcount: 773 Read all about it: to hell with free speech and long live the sponsors ELIZABETH FARRELLY Fifty years of permissiveness but still, when it comes to scandals, nothing beats sex. We deify certain males for their capacity […]
——————————————————————————– Pub: Sydney Morning Herald Pubdate: 21-May-2009 Edition: First Section: News and Features Subsection: Opinion Page: 11 Wordcount: 876 Locked into a losing war, we’re as safe as houses ELIZABETH FARRELLY The guy’s standing there, half out of it, watching us, pretending not to. He’s dressed for housebreaking (sneakers, backpack) but this hardly registers. Our […]
Pub: Sydney Morning Herald Pubdate: 14-May-2009 Edition: First Section: News and Features Subsection: Opinion Page: 15 Wordcount: 822 Uni makeover to break your heart ELIZABETH FARRELLY This is a column I’ve been trying not to write, hoping that these particular erections might at the last moment pluck themselves from the jaws of irritating bombast. But […]
Pub: Sydney Morning Herald Pubdate: 07-May-2009 Edition: First Section: News and Features Subsection: Opinion Page: 13 Wordcount: 820 Whiff of mystery is hanging over Iron Cove ELIZABETH FARRELLY On an oystery rock at water’s edge, a cormorant dries its wings in the breeze, perfectly content until another arrives and squawking rivalry ensues. Just metres away, […]
