"Somehow, the Kiwis have created a system where parliamentary democracy has found a rare graciousness beyond the raw struggle for majority power," writes "The Gadfly" columnist ROBERT MACKLIN.
"It was Queenslander Kevin Rudd who initiated the Apology to the Stolen Generations; and it was Dutton who walked out of the House when he did so," writes "The Gadfly" columnist ROBERT MACKLIN.
"Nothing comes close to the wild parabola of Kevin Rudd’s journey to the latest plot point in his story: appointment as Australia’s ambassador to the US," writes "The Gadfly" columnist ROBERT MACKLIN.
"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...
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.
