Another Country
I'll be in one from tomorrow: New Zullind to be precise - until October 12. I won't be posting until I'm back but I'm sure...
Gee…Just What They Needed….
Nigeria has just launched it's first satellite - from a missile base in Russia. The Washington Post reports Nigerian space agency spokesman, Solomon Olaniyi, saying...
Spring Clean
Out go Richard Alston and Wilson Tuckey - they'll be hoping there's no ambassadorial vacancy in Chad. Vanstone to Immigration, Ruddock to Attorney-General, Abbott picks...
Another national security gabfest (though not without interest)
Over the next couple of days I'll be peripherally involved with the Charles Darwin Symposium titled "The Eye of the Storm: Northern Australia's Location in...
The Wisdom of Molly
Molly, our elderly neighbour has just popped over. She lives a few houses down the river and is one of the few residents left who...
Blokes In Tights
Dennis Shanahan ran a piece, in Saturday's tree edition of the Australian - no online link - covering a speech that Wayne Swan gave to...
Denial City
Earlier in the week, Thabo Mbeki - in New York attending the UN General Assembly meeting - granted an interview to the Washington Post, wherein,...