Articles by: Anthony O'Donnell

Author Biography:

Anthony O’Donnell is an adjunct senior lecturer at La Trobe University Law School and worked with Moss Cass and Vivien Encel on the biographical study Moss Cass and the Greening of the Australian Labour Party (Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2017). This is adapted from a speech given at Moss’s State Memorial.

‘Not a Politician’s Politician’: Remembering Moss Cass

Dr Moss Cass (1927–2022), former Labor politician and minister in the Whitlam government, was farewelled at a State Memorial last Monday. Flags atop government buildings were set at half-mast, and past and present Labor MPs, state and federal, as well as present and former leaders of the Greens, all came along. As did former treasurer […]

Informit: A vanished medium [Book Review]

Review(s) of: Dissent: The student press in 1960s Australia, by Sally Percival Wood, (Scribe, 2017).

Informit: Cherishing convictions. [Review.]

Informit: Whoops apocalypse!. [Former US Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara says the Vietnam War was a terrible mistake.]

Informit: News comment

Informit: Screening the disaster

Review(s) of: Holocaust, directed by Steven Spielberg.

Informit: The splendour of truth and the church compatible

In 1966 a majority of Pope Paul VI's Commission for the Study of Population, Family and Birth voted for a change in the Catholic Church's ban on contraception. A member of that majority, Canon Pierre de Locht, wrote in his diary optimistically, 'It will not be possible any longer to reaffirm the general condemnations of contraception. I do not understand what excuse he [the pope] can use to impose on the Church his own personal…

Informit: Cooking degree zero [Book Review]

Review(s) of: The shared table: Ideas for Australian cuisine, by Michael Symons, Canberra, AGPS, 1993; Goodbye Culinary Cringe, by Cherry Ripe, St Leonards, Allen and Unwin, 1993.

Informit: Welfare after work?

Informit: Organic cooking?

There's a global financial crisis, so what to cook for dinner tonight? Luckily the Country Women's Association has come to our aid, publishing a book of economical recipes including sheep's head broth and braised mutton bird. And never neglect leftovers, such as shepherd's pie and bubble and squeak. They're a formidable bunch, those country women: apparently 32 000 women pooled their local knowledge to suggest soup and stew recipes that might sustain a family in…

Informit: A national cuisine?

Informit: Fattest nation in the world?