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Earlier this year John Elliott flew from Sydney to Zurich, where a Swiss euthanasia organisation helped him to commit suicide. He was 79 years old and was suffering from terminal bone cancer. He [...]

Ayaan Hirsi Ali was born in Somalia to devout Muslim parents and was enclosed by Islam for the first 22 years of her life, which she spent variously in Somalia, Saudi Arabia, Ethiopia and Kenya. [...]

I saw The Audreys perform at the Bridgetown Blues Festival in November last year, barely a fortnight after they won the Aria Award for the Best Blues and Roots Album of 2006. This strangely named [...]

A slaughter calculated to terrify non-Muslims throughout Holland took place in Amsterdam on Tuesday morning, 2 November 2004. While riding a bicycle to his film studio, Theo van Gogh, a distant [...]

Aussies are glad of any excuse for a long weekend and Easter is one such excuse. Yet the holiday is not without controversy. For it is a Christian holy day to commemorate the crucifixion and [...]

Finally, one arrives at the place of the skull because there is nowhere else to go. And there before the face of bone one pauses in despair.   The culmination of all evil is displayed before [...]

Now and again, I receive letters from children who have read my fantasy novels, With My Knife and Dragonfox.* These letters give me great pleasure, brimming as they are with admiration, [...]

Although my family’s interest in Australian Idol has increased over recent months, my own interest has lessened a little. For I have to admit that my favourite part of the whole affair was the [...]

Channel Nine’s current affairs program, 60 Minutes, recently ran a story titled “Straight answers”.1The “difficult question” the story tried to answer is one that all parents supposedly worry [...]

Scholastic Australia, through its imprint Omnibus Books, has published a fantasy trilogy by Andrew Lansdown. The three novels are: With My Knife Dragonfox The Red Dragon The Red Dragon is a new [...]