Antipodes

Click here to see how the famous old Honi Soit weekly newspaper will be preserved online. This 88-year-old jacaranda tree in the ch...

Towards the end of 1957, after my second year of studies in the Faculty of Science at the University of Sydney, my student friend Michael Ar...

Here in France, as elsewhere, Sydney’s terrible ordeal was front-page news, and we could follow events in real time, not only through the In...

I would have liked to publish this blog post yesterday... but (as Bill Shakespeare put it, so succinctly) better late than never. The last t...

The great Edith Piaf sung the praise of her lover, member of the French Foreign Legion, whose body exuded the aroma of hot sand. Thous...

Maybe some of my readers don't know this notorious punchline from an Australia Tourism video of 5 years ago: In Sydney yesterday, ...

A week ago, I published a short post entitled Images that stimulate our imagination [ display ]. Well, friends at Gallica tweeted me a than...

This blog post is intended primarily for members of my family out in Australia. I've just been informed by my cousin Margaret (daughter...

The Sydney Peace Foundation , founded within the context of the University of Sydney , makes an international award known as the Sydney Peac...

When I was a young man in Sydney in the late '50s and early '60s (working with IBM), I often used to eat in a nondescript but charmi...

I've already pointed out in my Antipodes blog article of 2 December 2007 entitled Reenactments [ display ] that historical reenactmen...

For a long time, swimming spectators in France were fascinated by Laure Manaudou . Recently, they've discovered an amazing muscle-bound ...

Starting in 1950, Australia dominated the Davis Cup for a period of four years, first with the duo Frank Sedgman and Ken McGregor . Then th...

What is there in common between an Australian railway-worker turned politician named Joseph Cahill [1891-1959] and a French banker turned p...

When I was in central Sydney for a few weeks last year, I was fascinated by the opportunity of walking around in circles for hours and hours...

I've only left Sydney once aboard an ocean liner, the Bretagne , which sailed from the Pyrmont terminal (now amalgamated into the modern...

When people are terrorized (in both senses, figuratively and literally) and their imagination runs out, causing them to lose control of them...