"City Flip Flop in Leather" — $US890 Yeah, you read it right first time. There is a "fashion" retailer in the US that wants you to pay $AU1500 for a pair of flip-flops — what we call "thongs" down here in Oz. OK, so they're made of Italian calfskin leather and they have some nice [...]
After predictions of a dire summer rain-wise in these parts, we've been blessed with a late season monsoon descended on the Top End of the Northern Territory. The NT isn't alone in getting a good drenching this summer, with Cyclone Alfred taking a slow stroll down the east coast and a large, slow-moving tropical system [...]
This review is by a good friend of The Northern Myth, John "The Doctor" Dease. Doc Dease is a retired journalist who lives in Sydney. The first thing to note about Netflix’s manor-house murder mystery The Residence is that it is completely, ridiculously — and refreshingly — off its trolley. Which it probably needed to [...]
On Monday last – in the midst of an unprecedented leadership crisis in the NT police force and with corrections and the justice system descending into chaos – the NT Chief Minister Lia Finocchiaro was a guest of Katie Woolf’s on her morning show on Darwin commercial radio MIX104.9FM. Katie Woolf is regarded by some [...]
Part Two – Michael Murphy, the Voldemort clause, the Police Union & the NT ICAC This is Part Two of an article examining recent events involving the NT Police Commissioner Michael Murphy, the NT ICAC, the NT government and the NT Police Association. You can read Part One here. Operation Apollo & The Voldemort clause [...]
Part One – Michael Murphy and the battle against racism in the NT Police This is Part One of a two part article examining recent events involving the NT Police Commissioner Michael Murphy, the NT ICAC, the NT government and the powerful police union the NT Police Association. Part Two will follow in due course. [...]
Photojournalist Glenn Campbell was covering Cyclone Alfred and called me just before he evacuated from Lismore yesterday afternoon. As ever he’s good for a yarn and yesterday he told me a few tales from a long career chasing cyclones – and much more – as an “accidental cyclone tourist.” Glenn Campbell – Lismore I just [...]
Nicolle Wallace and Malcolm Turnbull in March 2024. Image: MSNBC Nicolle Wallace hosts the early evening 90-minute MSNBC show Deadline: White House. Wallace’s Australian talking-head-of-choice appears to be former—as in very former—Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull. I’ve been listening to the podcast version of Deadline on and off for the past year or so and don’t [...]
Vice-president Kamala Harris. Photo: supplied A few hours ago I received an email from Jen O’Malley Dillon, Campaign Chair for Harris for President. Unlike earlier emails—and these past few days there’ve been more than a few—this latest was upbeat and has shrugged off the underdog tag the Harris campaign has worn to date. O’Malley Dillon’s [...]
I recently flew into San Francisco International Airport and had a 5 hour layover before my onward flight to Newark Liberty airport. An hour-long wait to clear immigration soaked up a chunk of that time and, after stumbling around the seemingly perpetual construction that seems to blight all airports nowadays while I spent more time [...]
