TV news isn’t fake but too often it isn’t news
There it was yesterday. A plethora of Australian journos standing mic in hand in front of the Champs Élysées or the Eiffel Tower reporting …
Spare us the open letter hissy fits
Open letters are the hissy fits of our times, petulant and tedious expressions of collective outrage. It is also by some considerable measure the …
Mother and child disunion
Here I was all set to knock out a Christmas column full of cheer and bonhomie but life, or more accurately, Daily Life has …
Welcome to the outrage industry
We live in weird times. Free from the rigours of parliamentary representation and sporting a hipster beard, Wyatt Roy appears to be writing his …
Preparing for my battle with cancer
In 2016 an estimated 130,000 Australians will be diagnosed with cancer. Last Friday I became one of them when I was told I had …
Why I quit TV
I know this won’t rate a mention in TV Week but my days on television are over. During the election campaign I received a …