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Many Australians persist in believing that Trump’s USA is still the friendly ally that would get them out of trouble immediately if ever any...

Let’s suppose you’ve just ordered an impressive automobile, made in France, and that you suddenly learn that detailed technical descriptions...

Several years ago, I brought up the important subject of Australia's antiquated submarine fleet, and the question of an ideal replacemen...

Two-and-a-half years ago, on 1 March 2010, my blog post entitled Australia's choice of fighter planes [ display ] suggested that my nat...

I started my professional life in France, in 1965, as a technical writer concerned with the Cyrano radar system of Thomson-CSF for fighter a...

As everybody knows [well, let's say, everybody with a good Catholic education], a strange event once took place on August 15. Mary took ...

I was amazed and sickened to find a reputed journalist in The Australian coming out with a lengthy and laudatory obituary for Indonesia...

An inspired TV journalist once asked the Dalai Lama : " Can your beliefs in reincarnation and your unbounded respect for all forms of l...

During my short trip to Australia in 2006, I was shocked to discover that there were no trains to a couple of NSW towns that I wished to vis...

It has just been announced that Australia plans to build " the world's most lethal conventional submarine fleet ". That curiou...