Elderly activists, Knitting Nannas Against Gas, received vitriolic hate mail addressed to a 'fat nanna sl**' after their peaceful protest against the mining of coal seam gas caught the attention ...

Knitting, to my 9-year-old self, was a craft reserved for grandmothers in films, with needles longer than their forearms and a comic array of fibres perpetually about their person.

Edward Keenan did a fine job explaining the alternate and historical meanings of the phrase “stick to the knitting.” This was presented as a weak defence of the deputy mayor saying he hoped ...