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The popular journalist Rebecca Wilson , 54, has lost her battle against breast cancer. This loss must be unbearable, not only for her hu...

Most often, I believe that Australian news is going downhill, in the sense that nothing much is ever happening in that remote country, and t...

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One of the most trashy “news websites” I’ve ever seen is Australian… but I don’t make a point of examining all possible contenders for this ...

Dismayed by the lousy treatment of Julian Assange in the Australian press (a fleeting phenomenon, since the fascinating and sympathetic lor...

I'm a condemned man. Five minutes ago, I suddenly went down with a terrible affliction: a deadly virus that I picked up by browsing thro...

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

It's still 2007 here in France, whereas the new year is already an hour and a half old in my motherland. And the following dramatic stor...

This is the content of a letter I sent, dated 4 September 2007, to a well-known journalist, Janet Albrechtsen , at The Australian . You wrot...