Over the last week jostlings about political legacy have brought the names Hawke, Keating and D’Alpuget back into the public spotlight. One other central name, Hazel Hawke, is no longer able to present her own perspective, she has advanced dementia. I didn’t know anything about Sue Pieters-Hawke apart from the fact she came from a …

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U.S. basketballer LeBron James announced that he was leaving his old team, the Cleveland Cavaliers to go and play for the Miami Heat. The announcement was made on a one hour television show that was specifically broadcast so that James could make his decision public. The owner of Cleveland publicly released an extraordinary condemnation of …

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