Down Under

Travel in Asia, Pacific, Europe, and the Americas, reveals a affectionate admiration for the peoples and lifestyle of this great sunburnt country, this wide brown land. Asians in particular regard us warmly, especially recalcitrant Muslim

The international reader – should the northern hemisphere lapse into inexplicable torpor and attention drift towards Britain’s remaining colony, Terra Australis – might need a helping hand with the goings on around this place. Well,

This could have been written yesterday – swap out “Reid” and swap in “Trumble” [aka former PM Malcolm Turnbull].

One can still offer boiled sweets through the bars, you know NSW Minister for Education Verity Firth said $10 million would see 42 schools become securely fenced this year. Schools provided with security fencing have

Broken news E.B. White’s Newsbreaks in The New Yorker magazine were curated media gaffes. In April this year The Times “posthumorously” provided White his best: Correction: An earlier version of this article misidentified the number

Emergency Flying Squad Proposed Sydney’s inner-west Burough of Ashfield fears pigeons are the biggest potential source of disease if the global threat of bird flu eventuates. The Deputy Mayor of Ashfield, Nick Adams, wants to

We, the boiling frogs, watched seven state premiers and a Territorian embarrass themselves with indecent haste to embrace the ugly foster child of terrorism. An abrupt increase in government power to harass its citizens and