Antipodes

The muddy bed of the Condamine River in Queensland is a source of methane gas, and it's easy to light up. Many observers believe tha...

Over the last 24 hours, French media have been having a field day writing what little they know about the mysterious "mad monk" wh...

Who's the arsehole who destroyed my tree?

I found this photo on the Internet. It's an old house not far from my birthplace: Grafton in Australia. I don't know the photographe...

Folk Down Under imagine naively, stupidly, that (1) global warming doesn't really exist, and that (2) they're making astronomical ef...

Up until today, I had never heard of this maritime creature, the cone snail . Maybe I resided too far below the tropical zone (in northern N...

This is the cover of a famous Australian weekly magazine, Pix , dated 23 September 1946 (the eve of my 6th birthday). The woman is the US ac...

In Queensland (Australia), its 10.30 on Wednesday evening. On my computer screen here in France, I'm watching the live display from a we...

Yesterday, there may have been a bushfire. And the day before that, people were suffering from a drought. That's a huge price that resid...

Peter Nicholson has kindly allowed me to reproduce the following cartoon which appeared in The Australian a few days ago: We see here the ...

Since March 2009, Anna Bligh has been the state premier of Queensland. Although this has been a prestigious title and task (she's one o...

Thanks to the Australian Broadcasting Corporation , excellent media coverage of the flooding is available here in France. [Click the banner ...

French TV and the Internet enable me to follow closely the terrible tragedy that is unfolding in Queensland. Everything seems to be happenin...

The word "muddle" seems right to me. It evokes mud. Dry mud. On the eve of the Copenhagen summit, the behavior of Australia's ...

I've always been aware that, here at Gamone, I'm basically a lawless hillbilly. And if I don't respect many laws, it's often...

It's understandable that Australian prime minister Kevin Rudd should be disgusted, like any ordinary observer, to think that bushfires ...

In the south-eastern state of Victoria, bushfires have just taken the lives of 65 people and destroyed hundreds of houses and countless thou...