Pub: Sydney Morning Herald Pubdate: 29-Jan-2009 Edition: First Section: News and Features Subsection: Opinion Page: 13 Wordcount: 792 No denying our bots look big in the shape of things to come ELIZABETH FARRELLY It wasn’t my first call from a machine. We’d been getting those hearty “congratulations!” calls for some time, where you’re meant to […]
Pub: Sydney Morning Herald Pubdate: 05-Feb-2009 Edition: First Section: News and Features Subsection: Opinion Page: 11 Wordcount: 866 Bad dreams of a front lawn for a 50-storey office park ELIZABETH FARRELLY Yesterday’s Barangaroo announcement was not in fact, as The Daily Telegraph gushed in its “exclusive”, a “final approval for one of the world’s unique […]
Pub: Sydney Morning Herald Pubdate: 12-Feb-2009 Edition: First Section: News and Features Subsection: Opinion Page: 15 Wordcount: 834 Mardi Gras has become too straight for comfort ELIZABETH FARRELLY GLBTQ is the acronym. It sounds like a sandwich filling but stands in fact for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender (some versions even add I, for Intersex) and […]
———————————— Pub: Sydney Morning Herald Pubdate: 05-Feb-2009 Edition: First Section: News and Features Subsection: Opinion Page: 11 Wordcount: 866 Bad dreams of a front lawn for a 50-storey office park ELIZABETH FARRELLY Yesterday’s Barangaroo announcement was not in fact, as The Daily Telegraph gushed in its “exclusive”, a “final approval for one of the world’s […]
——————————————————————————– Pub: Sydney Morning Herald Pubdate: 29-Jan-2009 Edition: First Section: News and Features Subsection: Opinion Page: 13 Wordcount: 792 No denying our bots look big in the shape of things to come ELIZABETH FARRELLY It wasn’t my first call from a machine. We’d been getting those hearty “congratulations!” calls for some time, where you’re meant […]
——————————————————————————– Pub: Sydney Morning Herald Pubdate: 22-Jan-2009 Edition: First Section: News and Features Subsection: Opinion Page: 19 Wordcount: 849 Posture a sore point for pained pedal-pushers ELIZABETH FARRELLY I’m developing a Theory of Sydney Cyclists. It’s about the link between humour and body fat. I know it’s not sustainable. I mean, Sarah Silverman, Ruby Wax, […]
——————————————————————————– Pub: Sydney Morning Herald Pubdate: 08-Jan-2009 Edition: First Section: News and Features Subsection: Opinion Page: 11 Wordcount: 929 Choking to death in the suburbs ELIZABETH FARRELLY ‘Fog!” the kids shout excitedly as we round the bend above Bronte. “Look at the fog!” “That’s not fog,” the adult voice lobs from the front seat like […]
Pub: Sydney Morning Herald Pubdate: 01-Jan-2009 Edition: First Section: News and Features Subsection: Opinion Page: 13 Wordcount: 859 Is there bravery enough to slay the gnashing beast of profit? ELIZABETH FARRELLY Man is born free but everywhere is in chainstores. It’s an old rewrite, but one that Rousseau himself may have preferred had he witnessed, […]
Pub: Sydney Morning Herald Pubdate: 27-Dec-2008 Edition: First Section: News and Features Subsection: Opinion Page: 21 Wordcount: 994 Room at the inn for Katya, smell and all ELIZABETH FARRELLY My paper lady just died. Christmas always reminds me, anyway, why those peeling inner-city boarding houses generally reviled as slums are actually essential to city life. […]
——————————————————————————– Pub: Sydney Morning Herald Pubdate: 18-Dec-2008 Edition: First Section: News and Features Subsection: Opinion Page: 11 Wordcount: 841 Quayside concrete boxes are hollow shells for art ELIZABETH FARRELLY ‘I’m sending a Christmas card to Obama,” confided the old duck in the toddlers’ pool. She was pre-aquarobics and perhaps that prospect made her add, with […]
