Antipodes

Recently, this emu at Taronga Park on the shores of Sydney Harbour was puzzled: The bird couldn't be expected to know that the gre...

It's an ancient French beverage, made from grapes. In my native Australia, it's known as plonk . Full of this stuff, the French fell...

I'm aware, of course, that the sense of the word "wrong" in my title depends on whether you were supporting the Wallabies, the...

In my article of 29 August 2007 entitled Sydney skies [ display ] , I criticized Australia's decision to place a jet fighter above the ...

How silly of me. Why didn't I have enough imagination to think of sending an email to John Connolly suggesting that he might hire me te...

A few days ago, in my article entitled Fences and walls , I evoked the use of barriers as protection, as in Sydney this week. In the modern ...

In the new rugby stadium at Montpellier named Yves-du-Manoir , the Wallabies trained today in front of an invited crowd of 10,000 spectator...

I can't imagine the place or circumstances in which this charming photo was taken. In any case, there won't be any immediate conflic...

The Italian truck manufacturer Iveco (which also happens to be the world's leading manufacturer of diesel motors of all kinds) has scor...