Category Archives: Personalities

Opinion Before a congregation including six serving and former federal and state treasurers, the great and the good gathered to farewell Bill Hayden, Queensland’s most consequential national politician. Dennis Atkins was there and looks back on a 44 year acquaintanceship and friendship. Dennis Atkins Print article Stephen Bliss, known as the very reverend in hisContinue reading “But for the Drover’s Dog, this favourite son of Ipswich would have made a great PM”

By Jake Rossen, Todd Gilchrist | Sep 2, 2019 | Updated: Sep 2, 2022, 12:08 PM EDT Ilya S. Savenok/GettyImages Keanu Reeves has been a Hollywood fixture since the mid-1980s, shifting from early dramatic turns in films like River’s Edge (1986) to action thrillers like Speed (1994), The Matrix (1999), and John Wick(2014) and anContinue reading “25 Excellent Facts About Keanu Reeves”

el Gibson has provided “valuable intelligence” regarding children thought to be vulnerable to child traffickers in Ukraine, according to the founder of anti-sex-trafficking charity Operation Underground Railroad (O.U.R.). Gibson has been a trending topic on social media over the past few days, amid claims that he was making a docuseries exposing a multi-billion dollar globalContinue reading “Mel Gibson”

Greg Sheridan The Australian May 4, 2023 Possums, you are barking up the wrong gum tree, if I can daringly Madge-like mix my metaphors a teensy bit, in the way you’re interpreting Barry Humphries. BH wasn’t the first to teach us to laugh at ourselves – consider Steele Rudd’s riotous Dad and Dave stories, LennieContinue reading “Sorry to break it to you, possums, but Barry Humphries was no leftie”

Ode to The Speccie Features Australia Barry Humphries and Rowan Dean Barry Humphries and friends in Bowral Barry Humphries and Rowan Dean 29 April 2023 9:00 AM ‘Is it alright if we pop in tomorrow morning?’ I asked Barry Humphries. It was Wednesday 5 April, and Andrew Neil was here for one of his regularContinue reading “‘A bit of doggerel’”

Flat White The Spectator Australia 23 April 2023 Several years ago, I found one of my parents doubled over in laughter – barely containing their brimming tears and gasping breaths as a book threatened to slip onto the floor. The perpetrator of this humour was a copy of More Please: An Autobiography by Barry Humphries.Continue reading “Barry Humphries and his Dame”

Barry Humphries and his Quadrant connection Keith Windschuttle Editor-in-chiefEditor, Quadrant Magazinekeithwindschuttle@quadrant.org.au It is not often publicly acknowledged that Barry Humphries was a political conservative and, for a big slice of his adult life, he was close to Quadrant. He made his first contribution to the magazine in 1970. It was an interview by editor PeterContinue reading “Tribute”

Steve Hopkins John Wick Chapter 4 will be dedicated to Reddick Keanu Reeves had said he is “deeply saddened and heartbroken” over the death of his John Wick co-star Lance Reddick. The actor died Friday, aged 60. Reddick, best known for his role in The Wire, also appeared in all four John Wick movies. HeContinue reading “Keanu Reeves pays emotional tribute to John Wick co-star Lance Reddick”