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Music Event: Around the World in 80 Keys

COMING EVENT Join us on a magical musical flight to Japan, Taiwan, India, France, Spain, London, New York, and back Down Under as they go...

‘I don’t think, I know’ – what makes Macron’s comments about Morrison so extraordinary and so worrying

  Image: Domenico Stinellis/AP/AAP French President Emmanuel Macron has called Australia’s Prime Minister Scott Morrison a liar on the world stage. In an extraordinary doorstop interview...

Why the Australia-France submarine deal collapse was predictable

  Aerial-motion/Shutterstock Australia’s unilateral cancellation of its contract to purchase French submarines and sign up for the AUKUS security pact constitutes a slap in the face for...

A Belgian farmer moved a rock and accidentally annexed France: the weird and wonderful history of man-made borders

  Picture: Shuttlestock This week, a farmer in the Belgian town of Erquelinnes caused an international ruckus when he moved a stone standing in his tractor’s path. This...

Europe’s second wave is worse than the first. What went so wrong, and what can it learn from countries like Vietnam?

Picture: Alberto Pezzali/AP/AAP Europe is again in the grip of a COVID-19 resurgence, with outbreak hot-spots in the United Kingdom, Spain and France each...

Sunday essay: who was Jeanne Barret, the first woman to circumnavigate the globe?

A modern portrait of Jeanne Barret disguised as a man, based on the author’s interpretation. Timothy Ide, Author provided In 1765, a young, peasant woman...

With 15 other children, Greta Thunberg has filed a UN complaint against 5 countries. Here’s what it’ll achieve

Whether or not the petitioners are successful, the mere act of filing the complaint has already brought the matter into the public eye. Justin...

POTATO JACK

Potato Jack often left home without his jacket on. His mum warned him he’d catch his death, but she was wrong. Just like she...

Sunday essay: do ‘the French’ care about Anzac?

This large ‘Do Not Forget Australia’ sign in a yard at the Victoria school in Villers-Bretonneux, is the heir of smaller signs...

WEEKENDS & HOBBIES & ROAST DINNERS

I was asked a few questions recently by a new friend that really had me thinking. Scrambling for answers actually, and aware of the...
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