My Night of Fun and Glamour at the Baseball
I don’t like sport. Excepting my netball glory days (goal shooter, I was very good, thanks for asking), I have only two vivid sport memories from childhood. The earlier is…
Fantasising About Diversity
When I heard the theme for this month’s Pelican issue I must admit I got a little (read: very) excited, because fantasy is kind of my special interest. My ideas…
Sigh Gnome More
It has been a rough year for arts at UWA. The faculty’s decision to cut three arts majors not only represents an attack on students, it also opens the way…
Vale Geoffrey Curgenven Bolton (November 5, 1931-September 4, 2015) Public Intellectual, Historian and Pelican Editor 1948-1950
The picture that adorns almost every obituary of Geoffrey Bolton fits his description as the wise old man of West Australian history. Bald with a long beard, his genial stare…
What Has Always Been: On the Right to Bear Arms
“Routine” was the word Barack Obama used to refer to the latest mass shooting in Oregon, fighting back tears. Routine. The shooting occurs, the families cry, the media swoops, the…