We love ambos. We’ve had occasion to call them to our household four times and every time they have been calm, professional, and friendly. At the 2022 state election, I was quite swayed by the Labor leader’s pledge to fix…

Almost everybody in South Australia now knows we have the annual Adelaide Writers’ Week event, due to a flawed attempt to uninvite a writer that then spiralled into a mass boycott and then a pile-on by groups issuing lofty statements…

I love Australia but we quite a few screws loose at the moment. We have people feeling the economic squeeze and therefore looking around to blame someone for it. The buck often stops with the stranger, the new arrivals, and…

Ever since I interviewed Eric Bogle many years ago on 5MU, and we discussed (and I think we played) the full version of his iconic song, And The Band Played Waltzing Matilda, I have believed that song is the primary…

I would love a Port Lincoln-based performer to grab this song and toss it into the ether with their own spin on it because this “Lincoln ritual” is a unique thing that deserves a local voice. But let’s start at…

We recently holidayed in Burra, about two hours north of Adelaide, and discovered a rich vein of South Australian history. I’m sure Burra is one of the most under-visited or underappreciated locations in SA, because it’s not on the ocean,…

It’s a daunting task, trying to distill a snapshot of history without becoming tedius like a drab school textbook, or jingoistic like a Mojo ad. As Colonel William Light said about his plan for Adelaide, “I leave it to posterity…

I have spent most of my life in the media, either directly or indirectly, and wish I had a dollar for every time a radio, tv, or print editor wheeled out “New Year resolutions” as a topic for discussion. Such…

Well, Richard Pascoe asked me to write a Christmas song for my South Australian song segment on FIVEAA. I think it is fair to say, my take on Christmas is a little different from what he might be expecting. For…

This is my reflection on the fact that the hero of the horrible tragedy at Bondi Beach on Sunday, December 14, 2025, was a Muslim man who tackled one of two gunmen to the ground. Before that fact was known,…