There is a decent, brave man sitting in a dungeon in a country where the British Empire began, a country of poets,…
When the outside world thinks about Australia, it generally turns to venerable clichés of innocence – cricket, leaping marsupials, endless sunshine, no…
Perhaps journalism, for me, began on a Bondi tram on a Saturday. This was the day Bondi’s adult males would vanish. They…
The recent breakout of the people of Gaza provided a heroic spectacle unlike any other since the Warsaw ghetto uprising and the…
In my film Death of a Nation, there is a sequence filmed on board an Australian aircraft flying over the island…
The former president of Tanzania Julius Nyerere once asked, "Why haven’t we all got a vote in the US election? Surely everyone…
"To me, I confess, [countries] are pieces on a chessboard upon which is being played out a game for dominion of…
The former Murdoch retainer Andrew Neil, who edited the London Sunday Times, has described James Murdoch, the heir apparent, as a…
When Prime Minister Gordon Brown spoke recently about his government’s devotion to the United States, "founded on the values we share",…
What has changed in the way we see the world? For as long as I can remember, the relationship of journalists with…
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