Antipodes

In my native land, it's Australia Day , and Google offered computer users an appropriate "doodle" : We see an Aboriginal...

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

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...

A week ago, I announced [ display ] that my maternal family-history document was completed. Today, I'm happy to announce that the comple...

As a boy in Grafton, I grew up in the shade of the celebrated Ford motor company, founded in Detroit (Michigan) in 1903 by the legendary ind...

Readers of Antipodes must wonder at times where I actually live. So, here's a helpful map, which provides you with clear indications co...

The ballad entitled And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda was written in 1971 by Eric Bogle , a Scotsman who had emigrated to Australia in 1...

Australia Day is an appropriate moment to commemorate my ancestral relative Thomas Rose [1749-1833] from Dorset. Aboard the Bellona , Thoma...

I've always known that, when my compatriots decide to tackle seriously various cutting-edge challenges of an intellectual or scientific ...

The last member of the indigenous family of Tasmanians was a lovely lady named Truganina (attired here in silly Victorian clothes). This 64...

Yesterday, I indicated the existence of a chapter from A Little Bit of Irish concerning my links with the Braidwood bushrangers. From that ...

About a year and a half ago, I placed the following document in the Issuu system: It's a chapter of the monograph entitled A Little Bit...

Australians are special people. When I returned to my native land in 1985 for a lengthy stay, I was alarmed to discover that many of my comp...

After their calamitous initiation into warfare in Turkey in 1915, Australian troops were brought to the region in northern France that the G...

Here in my adoptive homeland, France, we would like to know more about what happened to the great aviator who wrote the fabulous story of Th...

In my contacts with exceptional human beings, I've often been struck by their respective affinities with grand domains of the Cosmos: ei...

The antipodean continent chosen by the British authorities as an excellent abode for social outcasts had been inhabited for many millennia b...