Pub: Sydney Morning Herald Pubdate: 27-Jan-2011 Edition: First Section: News and Features Subsection: Opinion Page: 11 Wordcount: 976 Why post offices are going the way of cheap airport parking JOIN THE DEBATE ELIZABETH FARRELLY Gabon’s recent arrest of smugglers in possession of the head and hands of an endangered gorilla, plus 30 chimpanzee heads with […]
Pub: Sydney Morning Herald Pubdate: 03-Feb-2011 Edition: First Section: News and Features Subsection: Opinion Page: 13 Wordcount: 965 It’s hard to swallow food rules that treat us like mushrooms ELIZABETH FARRELLY I often wonder how many people died, back in hunter-gather days, while we worked out that this berry was safe to eat but that […]
Pub: Sydney Morning Herald Pubdate: 10-Feb-2011 Edition: First Section: News and Features Subsection: Opinion Page: 11 Wordcount: 1003 Danger lies on the GM food road ELIZABETH FARRELLY The West Australian Minister for Agriculture, Tony Redman, wants to redefine “organic” to accommodate genetic engineering. Well he might wish it, since the legal battle brewing there over […]
Pub: Sydney Morning Herald Pubdate: 17-Feb-2011 Edition: First Section: News and Features Subsection: Opinion Page: 17 Wordcount: 1051 Sedation nation the cost of taking boisterous out of boys ELIZABETH FARRELLY I have an acquaintance who, apart from being a practising professional, successful academic and author of several important books, is a pianist capable of rendering […]
Pub: Sydney Morning Herald Pubdate: 24-Feb-2011 Edition: First Section: News and Features Subsection: Opinion Page: 15 Wordcount: 1039 Challenge for feminism to find an honourable role for men ELIZABETH FARRELLY It’s the Great Man’s birthday bash and we mill, harbourside, in the summer evening. A thin, acidic woman, herself a Great Man’s spouse, gestures towards […]
Pub: Sydney Morning Herald Pubdate: 03-Mar-2011 Edition: First Section: News and Features Subsection: Opinion Page: 17 Wordcount: 805 CORRECTION! To the carmakers of the future: build it green and give it flair ELIZABETH FARRELLY What’s with Julia? Didn’t she get the memo? First she cancels the emissions trading scheme that got her elected. Then she […]
Pub: Sydney Morning Herald Pubdate: 10-Mar-2011 Edition: First Section: News and Features Subsection: Opinion Page: 13 Wordcount: 1045 City sprawl is the road to madness ELIZABETH FARRELLY Tokyo is almost three times the size of Sydney and vastly more dense, but my main memory of it is the sound of footsteps. Rush hour in Tokyo […]
