– With Dr Susan Merrell
Before I left Australia, there had been rumblings of discontent in the media about how Qantas was emerging from the Covid crisis … It had been a long time between drinks (so to speak) by the time I boarded the plane from Sydney to London aboard a Qantas Dreamliner. Covid had kept me grounded in […]
“The more things change, the more they remain the same,” as the French say. And indeed, there is a strong element of déjà vu in the recent riots that is seeing a disgruntled mob torching and razing Chinatown, Honiara for the second time in only the last 15 years. ‘Plus ça change, plus c’est la […]
Congratulations Melbourne The siren has sounded in Perth (of all places – thanks Covid-19) and the 2021 Premier of the Australian (Rules) Football league is Melbourne – the Demons. In a game that saw the lead change many times, Melbourne was finally victorious against the Western Bulldogs. It was their first premiership in 57 years. […]
As a journalist, I’ve learnt to guard against stereotyping. So on arrival in New York (my first time there) I had not given a thought to the loud, brash New Yorker of legend. I wasn’t expecting to encounter clones of Eddie Murphy, Sylvester Stallone or Jerry Seinfield. Yet, they were all there, en masse. New […]
Life has changed in the past year, as much for me as for anyone. In particular, life has become smaller – my world is no longer vast. I cannot travel overseas and we’re even unable to travel interstate – well sometimes. And that’s the rub – there’s no use planning ahead because, if the borders […]
This year Australia’s national day celebrations have been pared back as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic. (Are we going to update that number with every subsequent year the pandemic remains? The number seems to be mocking our ineptitude to deal with it quickly and efficiently, doesn’t it?) As a result, most of the events […]
