Antipodes

Yesterday evening, I watched a wonderful US documentary describing the construction of the Great Pyramid. It was simply unbelievable. This...

As a boy, I used to ride my bike across the two-tiered bridge (road/rail traffic) over the Clarence River between South Grafton and Grafton....

Three months ago, I wrote a blog article titled In the early hours of an Australian Morning [ display ] about a fatal accident in which two...

Urunga is a small seaside town to the south of Coffs Harbour (Australia), not far from my native Clarence River region, and the Pacific High...

I often wonder whether my Australian compatriots are aware of the exact contents of the mining contracts that are enabling foreign capitalis...

In Australia, the major coastal route between Sydney and Brisbane has always been known as the Pacific Highway . As a youth, I used to ride ...

I was surprised by a recent article in the Australian press with a shock title: "Looking to laptops to lead Doomadgee children out of p...

My ex-wife Christine , who reads Antipodes regularly, seems to imagine that I've built up some kind of diabolical hate-system against m...

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...

I was saddened by a recent press article that evokes a forthcoming Australian report according to which the remote Australian wilderness mus...

Europeans who were up at dawn this morning [such as me], browsing through the latest news, would have learned that a political game of music...

If you want to see some really crazy figures, take a look at the chart of comparative data in the CIA World Factbook concerning the lengths...

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...