Antipodes

Dans cette image de New Scientist indiquant des pays en train de disparaître, le drapeau à gauche est celui de l' Australie . ...

Everybody knows that people in the Antipodes walk on their heads, because they live in an upside-down world. It's true that my Antipodea...

This evening, France 2 showed an amazing documentary, shot in Australia, on the subject of animal intelligence . We saw baby kangaroos being...

The French newspaper Le Monde informs us that this crucial question has arisen Down Under. May the better mate win.

The behavior of the Australian book-sales business is unique. They don't seem to function in the same way as ordinary civilized bookshop...

One of these days, my native town of Grafton in Australia will have a new bridge over the Clarence River. The northern area, which includes ...

The journalist Stan Grant is a descendant of the Wiradjuri tribe. I love a sunburned country, a land of sweeping plains, of rugged mo...

If I were still residing out in my native land, I would surely react strongly to this ugly case of a total sell-out to American capitalism. ...

At the start of 1962, when I sailed from Sydney for the Old World, my grandfather was surprised, indeed slightly shocked, that a young Austr...

I don’t know whether many of my compatriots have ever heard of a NSW rural township named Breeza . Here’s a wonderful photo of the Breeza la...

On Australia Day, these sheep got their act together: But this dumb ram didn’t:

I’m so stunned and embarrassed by the comical stupidity of that Abbott fellow that I don’t feel like saying anything much at all today...

It would be wonderful if the stunning victory of the extreme left in Greece could be an incentive for vast changes in Europe. On ...

In this blog, here , I’ve already mentioned the prestigious annual Darwin Awards . They’re necessarily posthumous awards, because a winne...

This morning, I was browsing around on the Internet, looking for stores that sell long winter underwear... which is the ideal solution for k...

I'm impressed by this lovely Nasa night view of the planet Earth: [Click to enlarge] Questions arise, demanding answers. From rig...

In France yesterday, a similarly illegal protest march took place in Paris. We learn today that an official inquiry will take place, to...

Recently, this emu at Taronga Park on the shores of Sydney Harbour was puzzled: The bird couldn't be expected to know that the gre...

At Coffs Harbour, over the four days starting next Thursday, this is the Citroën automobile to admire: Here's a rear view of this vehicl...