Dope ‘em up
Australian athletes only managed to get two silvers at the Beijing World Athletics Championships. But the good news is that…
Driving Dixie
I am driving my son from Washington DC to Charlottesville, Virginia, for a two-day ‘orientation’ at the university he will…
Normandy landing
When you’re told by a Harley Street specialist that you’re not, as you had feared, about to cark it, you…
On ‘mateship’
Has Australia’s most valuable currency lost its value?
London notes
I can see the London Eye from my hotel room, but for a panicky, hungover moment this morning I thought…
Diary
I have added a few days onto a London trip to visit my mum in South Wales, and as I…
Tony, Nigel, and the older voter
Could there be method in the madness of Tony Abbott’s list of politically incorrect ‘gaffes’?
The Yanks are too childish to play rugby
Watching the American Eagles get slaughtered by the All-Blacks proved too much for the home crowd
South African notes
“Cape Town is a lot like Sydney,” an ex-pat yarpie had assured me. But as I’m driven through the township…
Scotland always was a foreign country
It’s tempting to look for parallels between the Scottish independence vote and our own republican referendum.
Ethiopian Diary
My partner Billy and I are in Gondar, in north-eastern Ethiopia, a few bone-jarring hours’ drive from the Sudanese border.…
