But they’re not honourable…
The Honourable Andrew Fisher, prime minister on three occasions between 1908 and 1915, was one of the very few politicians…
Fox politics in the Year of the Rooster
As we’re coming up to the Chinese New Year of the Rooster I’ve named my three new hens after former…
Christmas in Assyria
Once Assyria stretched from Cyprus to Iran and from the Caucasus to Egypt. Successive invasions and massacres have diminished both…
Christmas in South Sudan
Ten days before Christmas 2013 a civil war started in the new nation of South Sudan. The events leading up…
Death by blasphemy
My primary school teacher used to swear by Jove to emphasise how impressed he was when one of his pupils…
Raising the flag (without getting arrested or killed)
On November 28, East Timorese celebrate the anniversary of the day in 1975 when their country was declared an independent nation and they raised…
