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Diary Australia

Spanish diary

28 September 2019

9:00 AM

28 September 2019

9:00 AM

My choice of newspapers was limited. Given my little Spanish, the New York Times was always going to win out over El Pais while consuming my first espresso of the day in Madrid. It was a serendipitous choice. The front page of the journal carried the headline, ‘Staying hooked on coal – story of mining project in Australia, desired by India, cuts across nations.’

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