Sarah Mac is pure ABC. Why don’t the bosses who dumped her listen to their listeners?
Opinion
Radio

Sarah Mac is pure ABC. Why don’t the bosses who dumped her listen to their listeners?

The ABC switchboard melted down. I was among the outraged listeners.

  • byJenna Price

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‘The end of the dinosaur era’:What next for Sydney’s talkback stations as titans bow out

‘The end of the dinosaur era’:What next for Sydney’s talkback stations as titans bow out

The departure of some big names this year adds to the challenges facing AM radio.

  • byJordan Baker
They’d make a flogging:The case to re-open Old Sydney Town
Opinion
Spectrum

They’d make a flogging:The case to re-open Old Sydney Town

It was 1976 when the theme park based on Australian colonial history came to life.

  • byRichard Glover
Richard Glover to stand down after ‘hogging’ ABC Sydney Drive for 26 years

Richard Glover to stand down after ‘hogging’ ABC Sydney Drive for 26 years

Sydney radio will sound different in 2025 without the Drive presenter,who praised his colleagues and his listeners.

  • byCalum Jaspan
Accor? Do you mean the Olympic Stadium at Homebush?
Opinion
Spectrum

Accor? Do you mean the Olympic Stadium at Homebush?

Maintaining an old name,when we’ve been instructed to use a new one,is a form of resistance.

  • byRichard Glover
Public-private school divide against national spirit

Public-private school divide against national spirit

If our politicians were required to send their offspring to state schools,there would be a dramatic change in funding.

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Is there any joy so great as escaping a parking ticket?
Opinion
Real life

Is there any joy so great as escaping a parking ticket?

Oh,the exhilaration. Oh,the joy! It’s like being handed $136,the crisp notes counted into my hand by a beneficent deity.

  • byRichard Glover
Can I spring-clean my brain? I don’t need to know Australian explorers
Opinion
Spectrum

Can I spring-clean my brain? I don’t need to know Australian explorers

It would be a Marie Kondo clean-up for my head.

  • byRichard Glover
Society’s true innovators,disruptors and mavericks? They’re our under-twos
Opinion
Spectrum

Society’s true innovators,disruptors and mavericks? They’re our under-twos

Imagine if all humans could achieve the progress of the typical baby.

  • byRichard Glover
I thought the human body was beautiful,then I went to the chemist
Opinion
Illness

I thought the human body was beautiful,then I went to the chemist

I’ve suddenly seen the local pharmacy for what it is:a house of pain.

  • byRichard Glover
Should parking inspectors feel bad about doing their job?
Opinion
Workplace

Should parking inspectors feel bad about doing their job?

Even these derided professions deserve some respect,surely.

  • byRichard Glover