
A look at The Chaperone (PG) Continue reading

A look at The Chaperone (PG) Continue reading
WAFL round seven
It was a WAFL round that defied the tipsters and, perhaps, hit the re-set button. Continue reading

A look at Opera Australia’s Rigoletto Continue reading
A look at The Mule (R)
Summer’s the time of year when I seem to watch a heap of late evening re-runs on the Fox Classics TV movie channel. Continue reading
Due to a technical glitch – caused by an inadequate briefing during shift handover – for a little while yesterday we asked our fans and readers to provide us with their Best of… list for 2019. Executive bonuses have been frozen in the wake of this embarrassing error – we’ll hand them out later when the fuss dies down.
One correspondent, going by the name Vee Em, provided us with a 2019 list. It doesn’t seem at all fanciful so we’re publishing it… Continue reading
Oh no… it’s list time.
We’d love you hear what you thought was the best of 2019.
Here’s one from 2017….
https://australianrules.com.au/2017/12/30/best-of-2017-by-matt-quartermaine/

News came through today that Tony Joe White has died. My first instinct was to put For Lee Ann on the turntable. It always makes me cry – for good reason this time. Continue reading
WAFL round 14
A look at The Bookshop (PG)
IN a windy East Anglian village in 1959 an enterprising young woman opens a bookshop in a damp old ruin. Continue reading
Keeping an eye out…
Story first published in The Big Issue

From the street (first haul).
My cousin Don Milner reckons it’s bred into us old Goldfielders. We walk with our heads down, instinctively looking for a glint of gold. Continue reading
Teacher Education, Sport, Australian Rules Football,
Every scoreboard tells a story
With the first dog chosen in the AFL Canine Draft
escape to the Vasse idyll