Sexual Warfare

My latest project is live on The Sydney Morning Herald website: Sexual Warfare: rape in the Democratic Republic of Congo. My ode to MediaStorm's style of multimedia. With superb photojournalism from Kate Geraghty.

Melbourne weekend

Saturday morning: Best-selling author at a Sydney Airport bookstore


Saturday night: Min and Seamus at Pizza Meine Liebe, Northcote (try the potato and white truffle pizza)


Sunday brunch: Working the corner at Mitte, Fitzroy North (have the cinnamon poached pear and apple macadamia crumble and marscapone)


Sunday night: Catching the tram to Cutler & co, Fitzroy


Tanqueray 10, tonic and pink grapefruit


The salad Lyonnaise with cubes of smoked tongue, garlic sausage, pig's ear, confit duck gizzards and bruléed duck yolk


Chocolate dessert with "soil"


Min makes short work of hers


Honourable food mentions go to Degraves Espresso off Flinders Lane for Saturday brunch (espresso, eggs benedict and the Saturday Age) and Cafe Vue for Monday breakfast (croque monsieur, latte, John Bracks review).

My brave, brilliant friend

Professor Chris O'Brien "fundamentally changed lives" and left a lasting national legacy in fighting cancer, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd told mourners at the renowned surgeon's state funeral today.

After decades of battling other people's cancer as a head and neck surgeon, Professor O'Brien succumbed to the disease himself late last week.