"I've been mates with Aboriginal people since jackarooing in Queensland years ago, but it’s my marsupial friend who epitomises the shame I feel for what went before," writes columnist ROBERT MACKLIN.
"The brain is still a largely unknown quantity. We’re only beginning to explore its geography, let alone the actions wrought by the multi-billion connections between its constituent parts," writes columnist ROBERT MACKLIN.
"What odds that a young woman named Florence Nightingale who through sheer determination, courage and caring invented the profession of nursing?" asks columnist ROBERT MACKLIN as he muses about some of history's great coincidences.
"Unlike the authors, the charities that sell secondhand books pay no tax, so they get a double dip into the public purse," says veteran author and "CityNews" columnist ROBERT MACKLIN.
One endeavour, above all others, will be obsessing columnist ROBERT MACKLIN in 2023 – a book full of surprises for Canberrans on the real story of the men (and one woman) who laid the foundations for our National Capital.
"America, China, Russia and India are led by men so wrapped in their own political survival that they’d rather blow up the bedroom than hop between the climate-change sheets.," writes "The Gadfly" columnist ROBERT MACKLIN.
Were Shakespeare writing today, ROBERT MACKLIN thinks he’d change his quote from Dick the Butcher in "Henry VI, Part 2". You know the one, "The first thing we do, Let’s kill all the lawyers". Not that Macklin has much time for lawyers...
British subjects of King Charles III are in for a lively time if the reigns of his first and second namesakes are any guide. There’s even a couple of vague parallels with the current occupant of the throne, writes columnist ROBERT MACKLIN.
"Support for the republic will rise, boosted by the inevitable public downgrading of the monarchy in the backlash against colonialism and the antics of the Charles and Camilla regime," says "The Gadfly" columnist ROBERT MACKLIN.
"Albo's instincts have been most vividly on display in his handling of the Queen’s departure and the constitutional rearrangements to follow," writes "The Gadfly" columnist ROBERT MACKLIN.
Novelists have been mixing fact with fiction since Daniel Defoe picked up the story of the castaway Alexander Selkirk in the grog shops of London’s seafarers and gave the world Robinson Crusoe some 300 years ago, writes ROBERT MACKLIN.