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Read more about the article AI turns everything to custard

AI turns everything to custard

My grandson came home from school the other day with a one-page handout about National Simultaneous StoryTime 2026. It was a two-sided sheet with activities relating to this laudable event, which is organised by the Australian Library and Information Association. The idea of the event is that school pupils all over Australia get to read or listen to a particular book that has been chosen by the association - at the same time. The handout my grandson brought home was produced to complement the event. Apart from the front page illustration for colouring in, there were…

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Read more about the article I’m a bibliofool. I have a problem with books

I’m a bibliofool. I have a problem with books

I've got a bit of a book problem. It's very much like the kind of problem some people have with food: the kind of problem my father used to refer to when he told me that my eyes were too big for my belly. In the same way that I used to imagine I would be able to eat much more than I actually could, I also wrongly imagine I will be able to read many more books than I actually can. In the case of food what happens when your eyes are too big for…

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Read more about the article Your future may depend on READING “the news”.
Paper seller at BHP Newcastle, NSW, 1962

Your future may depend on READING “the news”.

HAVING spent decades working in the newspaper industry, I flatter myself that I have learnt how to read newspapers. I don’t mean just reading them: I mean really READING them, which is a different thing. You see, I have come to understand that the news isn’t what I once thought it was. Long ago I thought the daily news was a reasonably accurate account of important events in the world around us, brought to us by professionals who were bound by their ethics to quarantine their personal biases. What is emphasized? What is ignored? I soon…

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