Diary Australia
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The great moment arrives: my audience with The Queen. Foreign ambassadors are received by Her Majesty with elaborate ceremony, which…
Diary
For the past three weeks, London has been experiencing a glorious early summer: piercing blue skies, long warm evenings, the…
Australian diary
The frustrating reality of public life is that there’s usually a lot less to show for it than the headlines…
Kiwi diary
New Zealand has lived up to its reputation as the Land Of The Long White Cloud. Correction. It surpasses that…
Australian diary
Geneva seems oblivious to the end-of-winter freeze that has paralysed other parts of Europe. The trains and trams continue to…
Russian diary
On the Russian Presidential Polling Day Sunday, I departed Tullamarine at dawn with a fierce hot northerly blowing, already plus…
Aussie diary
He died in 1900, but my great grandfather, Archibald Richardson, outback explorer and early Rockhampton pioneer, is even today spoken…
Washington diary
Washington is now the capital of a resurgent nation, rejecting the untenable proposition that she is in terminal decline, a…
Australian diary
‘Where are you from? Why are you here? What is this week’s reading from the Bible? Where are you eating…
Australian diary
For some, it’s spiders or public speaking. For others, it’s being un-friended on Facebook or Jar Jar Binks returning to…
Australian diary
I returned to Parliament a week early for hearings of the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security. The committee…
Rock ‘n’ Roll diary
There seems no end to the need for trigger warnings in the leftist utopia but I never thought the rock…
Far East diary
Ever willing to challenge nanny staters, just before Christmas I travelled to Bangkok to advise regional consumer organisations on coordinating…
Australian diary
When I visited India as a tourist 47 years ago I was told that the population of Delhi was about…
Dharamsala diary
Delhi is smothered in a blanket of thick smog. Fierce dust storms in the Middle East have blown across the…
Christmas diary
My earliest memory of a Christmas holiday is of driving up to Darwin with Dad in his first car, a…
Bathurst diary
I know little about motor racing and care even less. So when a friend suggested the Bathurst 1000 car race…
Sino diary
In 1800, it could take at least 3 or more months, depending on the winds, to sail in a damp,…
Pestminister diary
A fortnight ago I arrived in Britain, to speak at the annual Battle of Ideas festival. Think Festival of Dangerous…
Author’s diary
Author tours are funny things, especially when unexpected. 12 months ago, I’d given up on getting Kingdom of the Wicked…
Diary
‘Less than two years ago five people sat in a room with a blank sheet of paper,’ Benjamin Griveaux the…
Diary
I hope one of my children studies law so at least he or she can read about me in Constitutional…
Climate diary
My previous key speech in London, in October 2015, was to call for rational border protection policy. This time it…
Expat diary
‘Oooo, Jer-emy Cor-byn. Oooo, Jer-emy Cor-byn,’ the cult-esque chant goes as we walk past. I’m marching with the LGBTories in…
Travel diary
If you have never been to Helsinki, put it on your bucket list. But, go twice. Once in summer for…
