Pub: Sydney Morning Herald Pubdate: 25-Nov-2010 Edition: First Section: News and Features Subsection: Opinion Page: 17 Wordcount: 951 It’s tough when you fancy rough JOIN THE DEBATE ELIZABETH FARRELLY It’s spring and, like Prince William, I’m looking for a bit of rough. In my case though this presents less as a lust for sturdy peasant […]
Pub: Sydney Morning Herald Pubdate: 27-Nov-2010 Edition: First Section: News Review Subsection: Page: 19 Wordcount: 1637 When fields yield to houses per hectare Cities Elizabeth Farrelly Urbanisation will put our food supplies under pressure, writes Elizabeth Farrelly. WHEN I was a kid, one of the people I loved most in the world was known to […]
Pub: Sydney Morning Herald Pubdate: 02-Dec-2010 Edition: First Section: News and Features Subsection: Opinion Page: 17 Wordcount: 816 Who are banks trying to impress? It’s certainly not their customers JOIN THE DEBATE ELIZABETH FARRELLY I love how they call the banking system the four pillars policy. It sounds so staunch and muscular, so Doric, as […]
Pub: Sydney Morning Herald Pubdate: 09-Dec-2010 Edition: First Section: News and Features Subsection: Opinion Page: 15 Wordcount: 978 In matters Parra, God trumps art JOIN THE DEBATE ELIZABETH FARRELLY So I’m chatting with this priest over lunch – fear not, I confess nothing – and he says, “Catholicism’s two saving graces are the saints and […]
Pub: Sydney Morning Herald Pubdate: 16-Dec-2010 Edition: First Section: News and Features Subsection: Opinion Page: 15 Wordcount: 967 Too scared, too dull: why we miss the French connection JOIN THE DEBATE ELIZABETH FARRELLY Le Grand Paris, le Petit Sydney. Wouldn’t it be funny if, after all, fascism ended up not just running the world, but […]
Pub: Sydney Morning Herald Pubdate: 23-Dec-2010 Edition: First Section: News and Features Subsection: Opinion Page: 19 Wordcount: 964 Ho, ho, bro, such joy in da ‘hood JOIN THE DEBATE ELIZABETH FARRELLY ‘The house of The Sydney Morning Herald’s Elizabeth Farrelly,” the Herald Sun’s rabid blogger Andrew Bolt wrote in a moment of rare insight, “must […]
Pub: Sydney Morning Herald Pubdate: 30-Dec-2010 Edition: First Section: News and Features Subsection: Opinion Page: 11 Wordcount: 978 New culprits in Kings Cross are musicians and oestrogen ELIZABETH FARRELLY Any Friday or Saturday night you see them in the train, youths of both genders sucking liquor from soft-drink bottles, ramping up the bravado, tossing bro-talk […]
Pub: Sydney Morning Herald Pubdate: 06-Jan-2011 Edition: First Section: News and Features Subsection: Opinion Page: 11 Wordcount: 910 Oh no, random thoughts pop into my holiday head JOIN THE DEBATE ELIZABETH FARRELLY I try, on holiday, not to think anything at all. Thinking is work and the whole point of a holiday is not to […]
Pub: Sydney Morning Herald Pubdate: 13-Jan-2011 Edition: First Section: News and Features Subsection: Opinion Page: 11 Wordcount: 995 Gehry has designed a building that is more about him than us ELIZABETH FARRELLY To criticise Frank Gehry, even mildly, is to be accused of tall-poppyism, slow-wittedness, envy and, that greatest sin, being a nobody. The nobodiness […]
Pub: Sydney Morning Herald Pubdate: 20-Jan-2011 Edition: First Section: News and Features Subsection: Opinion Page: 15 Wordcount: 969 Clean energy alternatives to allay Big Coal’s flood of tears JOIN THE DEBATE ELIZABETH FARRELLY To blame Bob Brown is to shoot the messenger. As we ache for Queensland’s losses and rightly look to recovery, we must […]
