Antipodes

I'm employing this pair of words metaphorically to designate clarity and obscurity. And the theme of my post is a petition that has just...

This extraordinary but frightening photo (which I've modified slightly) of the great Victorian city of Melbourne, taken from burnt-out K...

There's a popular saying in French: "Tell me what you read, and I'll tell you who you are." In fact, it's an entire f...

It's understandable that Australian prime minister Kevin Rudd should be disgusted, like any ordinary observer, to think that bushfires ...

Back in the days when electricity was brought to outlying farms such as Gamone, nobody worried much about environmental and aesthetic issues...

In the south-eastern state of Victoria, bushfires have just taken the lives of 65 people and destroyed hundreds of houses and countless thou...

Did I really say goddess ? The little mongrel reminds me of country mates I used to see in South Grafton, when I was a kid, who suffered fro...

When Barack Obama realized that Tom Daschle , the man he had nominated for the job of health secretary, was in a delicate and finally unacc...

A few days ago, in my article entitled Dark excursion [ display ] , I referred to tragic events on the Vercors plateau in July 1944, culmin...

This publicity photo for the Citroën model DS was taken in Italy in 1961. What a nice clean image! It's hard to believe that we're l...

On May 16, Patricia Kaas will be representing France at the Eurovision song contest in Moscow. Behind this surprising announcement, I detec...

My blog editor indicates that this is my thousandth Antipodes post. So, I take this opportunity of thanking everybody who has been reading ...

It doesn't seem right to describe my drive up onto the Vercors plateau yesterday afternoon as "dark", because the landscape wa...

"And the Goat shall bear upon him all their iniquities unto a Land not inhabited." [Leviticus 16:22] When there's trouble in ...

Let me mention three interesting things: -- a website with the photos of François Skyvington , -- the virtual version of the Vendée Globe y...

In my recent article entitled Wanderlust [ display ] , I pointed out that the first recorded case of a traveling gnome prank occurred in Sy...

The primeval Macintosh computer was taken out of its bag exactly 25 years ago. The following video shows us the historic moment when this ha...

It appears that ceramic garden gnomes were invented in Germany in the middle of the 19th century. But it was in my native land, Australia, t...

Concerning the handling of convicts, Australia is no doubt one of the most experienced nations in the world, because that's a fundamenta...