Opinion

SO the Olympics have been run, won and done. Have to be honest here, just between you and me, that – just occasionally – having…

I don’t think the old Whacker will be heading into town again anytime soon.It’s just too bloody confusing, congested and now, increasingly, confronting. We took…

You call this a budget? Bloody hell, if I served up a load of tripe this big at the back I would be tarred, feathered…

I have been quietly waiting for about two years for something to go pop in the Australian dairy industry. Milk prices have been high –…

So it’s come to this. Australia Post is going out of the postal business. The postie is now going to deliver mail only every other…

AROUND the old Whacker family property, I can report most things still seem to be White Anglo Saxon (sort of) Protestant. Except for the odd…

Whacker column I’D like to say I bounced out of bed the other day. Instead I felt as though I had been bounced. While I…

Whacker I’VE said it more than once, but I’ll say it again. Only because I’ve just come back from a school reunion – which was…

I’VE heard about how the older we get, the more we remember the past. Or, more certainly, long for it. And not just because we…

One week you win an award, the next week you have to recall off milk. One week you’re dancing a jig because you get a…

MOST of the grape varieties are now going through the flowering stage, so it’s good to see some warmer weather to aid in the process.…