Richard Glover is the author of 12 books, including the prize-winning memoir “Flesh Wounds”. He presents “Drive” on 702 ABC Sydney and the comedy program “Thank God It’s Friday” on ABC local radio. For more: www.richardglover.com.au
The rules are simple: Just unearth from your memory some bizarre aspect of the past, retell it to a nearby millennial, and watch as a look of perfect horror and surprise forms on their face.
I find myself contemplating a new radio segment called "Let's Shock a Millennial" in which Baby Boomers and Gen Xers ring in to reveal the surprising horrors of life in late 20th-century Australia.
Welcome to spring in Sydney.
Treasured family possessions are struggling to find space in our modern lives.
Can someone come to the aid of the shy, the busy, the overwhelmed and the innumerate?
Dear Mum and Dad, it's your puppy Clancy here, writing from my home in the city. Man and Lady are still fun to live with, although they're often baffled by the simplest of instructions.
Just how long might equal marriage be delayed? How high might be the social costs? How many people might be driven to suicide by the months, years, of divisive debate?
No need for the horn, the middle finger or a brawl; there a simple way to reduce road rage in Sydney.
It was just a harmless huntsman, but it provided definitive proof of what Australians have long suspected.
Machines, I've always thought, are both amazingly brilliant and often spectacularly dumb.
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