David Penberthy

Last week I covered a Liberal Party fundraiser where John Howard was the guest speaker.

Grandpa had lived a long and happy life until he was 83 when he died suddenly after being struck down by a Violet Crumble.

Last Sunday as is usually the case on Australia Day I spent the day with my family and a group of friends at Aldinga Beach in Adelaide’s south.

If we are going to maintain our quality of living, South Australia needs to have a much more sensible and worldly discussion around the question of population.

A few years ago I swore myself off taking any part in school parent WhatsApp forums. The first reason was simply a lack of time. Conversations on these things can really take on a life of their own.

South Australia had a front-row seat for the economic devastation brought about by the Chinese tariff war in the wake of Covid.

In politics, so-called “star” candidates have a habit of burning out. Remember Cheryl Kernot? Hailed – especially by herself – as the great white hope of the Labor Party upon her defection from the Australian Democrats to join Kim Beazley’s team? Famously jumping the shark a few months later when in a moment of confronting vanity she posed up in the Australian Women’s Weekly wearing a feather boa?

Many of you will have seen the US television drama The Bear which tells the story of an intense young chef by the name of Carmy who is tortured to the point of insanity trying to establish a Michelin-starred restaurant in Chicago.

I woke up last Sunday in a state of disrepair in an Airbnb in Daylesford. Me and a couple of mates had driven from Adelaide to country Victoria to see one of our favourite bands, the Cosmic Psychos, the legendary bunch of drunks credited with creating the genre known as “yob rock”.

The campaign against the proposed construction of a plastics factory in Old Reynella has been hailed as a victory for people’s power.