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THE WRITER AS BUREAUCRAT OR THE BUREAUCRAT AS WRITER?

Question: What is the strongest urge known to mankind – even stronger than sex? Answer: the need to correct someone else’s writing. That was my experience during my forty-plus years as a public ser ........

ETHICS AND RELIGION IN CORRUPTION

You probably picked up in my previous post that I was born into a devout Catholic family and that I was a devout Catholic boy. I am still a practising Catholic, although there are many, many things ........

THE EARLY YEARS

My mother was a columnist. When we were children, she regularly wrote a column called Our Family for the Sentinel, the monthly paper for the Catholic Maitland diocese and later for the Sydney-based ........