Garry Linnell
Garry Linnell: Stink of politicians and property developers hard to wash away
We had no idea how far the disease had spread until the autopsy was carried out. We’d known something was wrong because...
Garry Linnell: The real reason why Halloween in Australia is positively terrifying
The carnage was indescribable. There were children, faces spattered with blood and gore. There were adults, faces bruised and ashen. One of...
Garry Linnell: Enslaved by your phone? One solution is as elegant as a brick to the head
He had thick spectacles, lived at home with his mother, collected comic books, blushed and stammered whenever he spoke to a girl,...
Garry Linnell: The tragic love story of Captain Moonlite and the end of the bushrangers
The evening of January 19, 1880: On this Monday evening, a half-moon hanging in the sky, Andrew George Scott is alone in...
Garry Linnell: Modern-day snake oil fools presidents, MPs and the would-be believers
In a small sheet metal factory in Germany, a young man with a drooping moustache tinkers with a two-stroke engine that will...
Garry Linnell: The mogul, the tiger, and the million-dollar bet that never paid out
Kerry Packer stared at me, his eyes cold and hard and full of suspicion. He grimaced. Then he leaned back in his...
Garry Linnell: Empathy is dead and it’s time for us peasants to make way for profits
It did not take long after the disease arrived for the bodies to begin piling up. They found some of them in...
Hope lives here: How an unwanted boy finally found his way home
Almost 70 years have gone by, but it’s still easy to find that lonely kid standing on a street corner waiting for...
Garry Linnell: A horror voyage to Australia undoes the anti-vaxxer argument
Thank you for coming. Many of you may be wondering why we have gathered you here on this decrepit wharf in the...
Garry Linnell: Angry old men rule, and are ruining, the world
Old men are dangerous. It doesn’t matter to them what is going to happen to the world. – George Bernard Shaw There’s...