Paul Sheehan

The camera is capturing the modern narrative

Paul Sheehan When a couple left the theatre two nights ago after seeing the wordless new documentary extravaganza, Samsara, they marvelled at the opening sequences where an aerial camera floated over a city of...

Creating the water cooler effect for a modern radio audience

Cherie Romaro The death of a London nurse has shown radio ''gotcha'' calls belong to a bygone era.

Libby Brooks

Mirror, mirror: modern-day fairytales help to keep the magic alive

Libby Brooks It is said that every era finds a mirror of its politics in the culture it generates.

Danny Katz

Modern man is out of step as he tries to dance to another's tune

Danny Katz Five words a man never wants to hear from his woman: 'Want to go salsa dancing?'

Conrad McDonald

Traditional marriage model needs to submit to modern world

Conrad McDonald Marriage really matters. So do "wives and husbands". These are important terms, with inbuilt notions developed over centuries: responsibility, commitment, sacrifice, companionship, love.

Annabel Crabb

Here's a Father's Day question: Can the modern man have it all?

Annabel Crabb Can women have it all? It's one of the most over-asked questions in the contemporary Western world, along with, ''Do you want fries with that?'' and, ''What's my ex doing today on Facebook?''

Elizabeth Farrelly

The writer who saw into the modern

Elizabeth Farrelly I'm not really given to reverence. Bit picky, I guess. But Robert Hughes, of all his brilliant expat generation, I revered.

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Geoffrey Garrett

A degree tailored for modern times

Geoffrey Garrett Globalisation and technology bring new needs.

Anne Gallagher

Turning a blind eye to modern-day slavery no longer an option

Anne Gallagher Every year, hundreds of thousands of women, men and children are deceived or coerced into situations of exploitation.

Christine Croyden

I blog, therefore I am. Life in modern times

Christine Croyden I'm visiting Paris, where newspapers and books written in English are expensive and can be hard to locate, so I've taken to reading a wide range of blogs.

Hamish McDonald

Rich mosaic of life in a modern jungle

Hamish McDonald Think of anthropologists. You probably picture a spectacled, tropical-suited person out in the jungle risking poisoned arrows, the cooking pot or forced marriage to the chieftain's daughter in a...

Heckler

Modern art is nonsense on stilts

Stephanie Hayes (Heckler, Friday), I'm sorry. But you'll just have to put up with us poor, old ROMAs.

Martin Flanagan

Ancient world with which modern AFL must engage

Martin Flanagan Last week, I received a letter from Peter Collins, head of the Aboriginal Legal Aid Service in Western Australia, concerning Waylon Manson, a young Kukatja man and football talent from Billuluna in...

Heckler

Pain of modern paeans

Heckler WHY doesn't God turn them into pillars of salt? Or at least send a bolt of lightning or two?

Heckler

Modern post issues in a modern land

Heckler ''I'D LIKE to send this parcel by registered post, please.''

Richard Glover

Grim tales of modern folk but they're no fairytale

Richard Glover So many of our fairytales are so old fashioned; so remote from the issues that confront contemporary Australians. Maybe it's time for a rewrite.

Elizabeth Farrelly

How society turned modern men into bank managers

Elizabeth Farrelly I have a male friend - safety demands his anonymity - who declared straight-faced the other day that just being a man is heroic. Yes, he is still a friend, but life is cruel.

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Lisa Pryor

Secret life of them: a devastating take on modern parenting

Lisa Pryor When this generation of teenagers is able to articulately protest about how they were raised, what will they say? Will they fulfil the fantasy harboured by every generation of parents since the...

Richard Glover

Modern underwear not for the faint-handed

Richard Glover FOR years, the left-handed have had much to endure. Children were beaten if they wrote with their left hand. Left-handed golfers were mocked.