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#Australie #AustraliaDay #Aborigènes The long road has been winding its way through a tunnel for many years, and the bright light is not y...

Our ambassador in France is Stephen Brady . You see him in the following snapshot (baldish) alongside his friend Peter Stephens (drinking m...

An out-of-control car slammed into a Queensland house where mourners were gathering for a funeral. One of the mourners was killed, while a d...

Although I was born in Australia, and spent quite a few years there, I have to admit that I've never witnessed our most spectacular road...

I’ve always been intrigued by the fact that linguists, when expected to indicate in words the noises made by various animals, seem to be in...

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...

Up until recently, I used to make comments in this blog—often of a critical nature—on various aspects of my land of birth, Australia. But I&...

Even if society were to decide that pranks should be forbidden, it would be impossible to enforce such a ban. So, one has to learn to live w...

In Melbourne (Australia), the transport authorities have commissioned a cute little video that's supposed to encourage train travelers t...

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...

This is really weird stuff. And so it should be, because the Queensland psychologist Matthew Thomson has hit upon a way of transforming por...

Here's some sound advice concerning the forthcoming census in Australia: Through their numbers and their well-organized stance, Australi...

Click the banner to find some interesting portraits of Australians who had dealings of one kind or another with the police and justice syste...

During a phone conversation with my aunt who lives in Sydney, she reaffirmed her conviction that Australia, in the eyes of the vast majority...

Now that all the saintly celebrations have ended, and the papal partying has subsided in Sydney and the suburbs, I think it's time to dr...

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

I found this cute image on the web: It seems to have something to do with customs (the second dog has apparently detected something smelly),...

It's not an everyday habit of my lovable no-nonsense aunt Nancy Walker [married name Smith ] to get involved in conceptual meditations....

Ever since I was a child, I've realized that one of the surest ways of being admired in Australia, particularly posthumously, is to beco...

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...