"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...
The slaughter of 72.000 Aborigines by the British invaders was "unbearable" says columnist ROBERT MACKLIN.
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.
"While collectable shops, market stalls and so-called charities pile up their profits, the authors of the work sold and resold get absolutely nothing," bemoans columnist ROBERT MACKLIN, himself an author of 30 books.
The prime minister says it's too early to be talking (again) about the prospect of an Australian republic. Columnist ROBERT MACKLIN disagrees...
As the astrophysicists wax lyrical, "The Gadfly" columnist ROBERT MACKLIN wonders if knowing more about the universe makes any difference to life on our tiny blue planet.
"The PM presented successfully to the international leadership without falling prey to the egomania that often accompanies such tap-dancing on the world stage – as happened so embarrassingly with his predecessors," writes ROBERT MACKLIN.
Author of 29 books, "The Gadfly" columnist ROBERT MACKLIN shares a glimpse of the crazy, self-absorbing life of the long-distance writer.
