Teaching history
Australia Day always brings out the whingers, the whiners, the crazy Invasion Day anti-nationalists and the almost equally crazy flag-draped…
Teaching history
Australia Day always brings out the whingers, the whiners, the crazy Invasion Day anti-nationalists and the almost equally crazy flag-draped…
Anzac Diary
I am writing this diary from the Opera, not the theatrical sort, we are on a cruise ship anchored for…
Foreign notes
We have been in Italy since the beginning of May when I had what people politely term a ‘significant birthday’,…
Our valued Vatican envoy
In mid-2009, I landed in Italy for an extended break, as it happened, on the day of the L’Aquila earthquake.…
