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The Sydney Morning Herald tells us that former PM Tony Abbott addressed an Alliance of European Conservatives and Reformists in Prague on ...

A French-language article in today’s Le Monde reveals that the Amnesty organization labels the attitudes of the Australian government towa...

He happens to be the prime minister of a rather dull country, Australia  (where I was born in 1940), on the other side of the planet. Tu...

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...

Readers who know French will have understood that my title is an awkward attempt to translate our fear that « la France d’autrefois fout le...

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

In certain fields (and not only in sport), outstanding individuals from my native land can do just as well as celebrated Americans, if not b...

I'm utterly shocked by the apparent absence of Australian diplomatic intervention in the case of Julian Assange , condemned to survive f...

The situation is unfair. Why is it that such-and-such a totally-unknown moronic compatriot from Down Under makes world headlines every so of...

I've always been intrigued by the enigmatic sad smile of the Aussie polly Craig Thomson . As Craig looks back nostalgically upon his pas...

The Aussie entertainment scene will be soaring to new heights with an exciting concept of prime-time TV: the Bob & Kris Show . Viewers o...

The leaked US diplomatic cables reveal that an Aussie senator named Mark Arbib has been supplying a foreign power (the USA) with local inte...

With the election over, and an era of political instability lying ahead, let me get back to my regular observations about the rickety infras...

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

There are so many things to worry about in the modern world that I don't know whether there are folk who still wonder why the burgers in...

This morning, while browsing through an Australian media website, I encountered these two ads, side by side: I'm shocked by the Australi...

Once upon a time, up until quite recently, there was a semblance of mutual concern, at a political level, between elected Australians and th...

I would have found it more appropriate if the Australian PM had given up his Mad Minister for Lent... but he at least decided to give up Ga...

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

As some of my readers know, I've been puzzled for ages by what I call the Australian infrastructure enigma , which can be summarized by ...