Home truths strike at heart of our habitat
The hope of home drives people to desperate measures. And we respond with fear.
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Elizabeth Farrelly
Elizabeth Farrelly is a Sydney-based columnist and author who holds a PhD in architecture and several international writing awards. A former editor and Sydney City Councilor, she is also Associate Professor (Practice) at the Australian Graduate School of Urbanism at UNSW. Her books include 'Glenn Murcutt: Three Houses’, 'Blubberland; the dangers of happiness’ and ‘Caro Was Here’, crime fiction for children (2014).
Most of us are unsurprised by skullduggery in the church, but this is low
Most Australians are as unsurprised by skulduggery in the church as by double-dealing in government. It's almost like they expect it. Yet even that low bar has stumped the church of late.
Welcome to peak crazy, where truth is elusive
Captain Fantastic, the new Viggo Mortensen release, may be the year's best cast and scripted film. It's also the worst named.
Our trees are wiser than our leaders
Simplicity won't save us - complexity is king.
Be a good egg and make dinner for everyone
"Bad egg" was always a metaphor, taken from the kind of biological rot that provided literature with the brimstone aromas of hell. Now it's more literal. The bad egg is one whose moral content is on the nose; an egg produced with cruelty.
Politics under the influence gets ugly
You can bet your bottom dollar, whatever Dastyari was up to, others are also at the trough.
Sex, truth and inequality: what has the internet ever done for us?
Last week the internet turned twenty-five. In that short time it has gone from novelty to necessity. But is it a good thing?
Clover has stood the test of time
Normally, when a role becomes fashionable it becomes male – although perhaps it's the other way around; maleness makes a thing cool. Either way, roles that were menial and female - cook, seamstress, waitress, barmaid - become, when male-ised, glamorous - chef, couturier, barista and that bearded bar dude with so much attitude he thinks cocktail recipes are serious intellectual property.
The bizarre planning scenario playing out in Sydney
We are at a crossroads regarding the Sydney of the future, and we must choose well.
Greed is good is yesterday's mantra
For decades, belief in The Market as divine presence – guaranteeing fairness and quality and providing a universal template for everything. Now, at last, this is starting to reverse.
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