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 [...]
I’m in the wonderful city of Charlotte in North Carolina, and later today I’ll present my paper updating our research into fire-spreading raptors in the Top End of the Northern Territory in Australia at the 2024 Raptor Research Foundation conference. Following are some of the highlights of my presentation. I last presented at the RRF [...]
The NT election will be held tomorrow, 24 August 2024. I now reckon that Eva Lawler’s Australian Labor Party (ALP) will squeak back to office with either a one-seat majority or as a minority government with the support of an Independent. That’s not a reckoning shared by most of those I’ve talked to over the [...]
The Sports Live At Billboard 1981 is the 42nd release of the Australian Road Crew Association’s (ARCA) Desk Tape Series. Many years ago while based in a land far away – well, Melbourne – I worked with The Sports in Australia and the UK as an FoH (front of house) sound engineer who tried – [...]
Bob Gosford reports from Darwin As I noted earlier this year, 2024 will be a big year for elections. Yesterday’s issue of the writ kicked off the NT election on Saturday 24 August that will have ramifications for both major parties at a national level – for Labor to retain its electoral dominance; for the [...]
A few years back I was lucky enough to get out to the (semi) annual horse races at Ltyentye Apurte (also known as Santa Teresa), a small community east of Alice Springs. You can see a selection of my photos from the day's racing here. Recently I was going through some old photo files and [...]
The O.J. Simpson known to the public, to TV audiences, movie audiences, sports audiences, was an utter fabrication. I knew he had hit his wife.
Meshell Ndegeocello has been on my mind since her side-shows in Sydney and Melbourne were announced ahead of two dates at Bluesfest in Byron Bay. You couldn’t get me to Bluesfest if you paid me big wads of dosh – the idea of spending three days in the company of thousands of increasingly sweaty and [...]
Meshell Ndegeocello was at her go-to repository of auditory delights—Amoeba Music on Hollywood Boulevard in Los Angeles last October showing off her tote bag of goodies as part of their irregular, funny and revealing "Whats In My Bag" sessions. The YouTube clip gives a pretty good idea of Meshell's catholic musical and artistic tastes - [...]
