Call That A Festival? This Is A Festival

IT HAS often been noted that Melbourne is swarming with arts festivals, so much so that the tag "festival" has virtually mutated into a banal marketing term, an all-too-easy word to slap onto a cultural event. But it is not often that a festival is so good or different or daring that it imprints itself indelibly on the memory.

A Rule Made To Be Broken

CRICKET AUSTRALIA needs to stiffen its backbone. Certainly it ought to reconsider its rejection of past players such as Michael Kasprowicz and Jason Gillespie, whose only offences were to spend winter months going to India to play 20-over cricket in an unsanctioned league.

Cricket Australia Must Not Kneel Before India

CRICKET Australia needs to stiffen its backbone. Certainly it ought to reconsider its rejection of past players like Michael Kasprowicz and Jason Gillespie, whose only offence has been to spend winter months going to India to play 20-over cricket in an unsanctioned league.

Guest Scores Universal Appeal In Merewether Visit

PLAY almost ground to a halt in the weekly competition at Merewether Golf Club last Thursday afternoon when an unexpected visitor arrived for a lazy nine holes.

Mick Labelled As Grayson

ONCE Newcastle muso Michael Edser moves to Ireland next week to record an album he'll be known as Grayson the name of the group in which he used to play with his twin brother Tony.

Last Word

Is this the bloke who picks the team?

Another Day, Another Death Rattle, And Politics Come Into Play

THE cricket field, like the political, is an exposed place; in cricket, as in politics, the end can be public, protracted and merciless.

Last Word

Punter fires back after year of hell