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Ljubljana Love

Who put love in Slovenia, a pocket-sized country squeezed between Austria, Hungary, Italy and Croatia? While roaming central Europe, your … More

architecture, Jose Plecnik, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Go Aussie Gunboats

As predicted, ScoMo has rushed to sign us up for a US mission in the Strait of Hormuz, by assigning … More

Anzac myth making, Boer War, gunboat diplomacy, Henry Reynolds, persian gulf, strait of hormuz, Unnecessary Wars

War on Iran?

Oh no, here we go again – I have that sinking feeling in my stomach, or is it my blood … More

China, Hugh White, Iran, ScoMo, Trump

Mandolin & Mussolini

Louis de Bernières’s book Captain Corelli’s Mandolin sold well in the day and prompted a movie with Nicholas Cage and … More

Louis de Bernières; Captain Corelli's Mandolin, Mussolini

International Women’s Day

Recently in Hawaii your eagle-eyed correspondent discovered on a wall in a humble abode this ironic (iconic?) reference to a … More

Hawaiian dancers, International Women's Day, Last Supper

Rainbow Warrior: Lunch with Spies

John Menadue (Qantas boss at the time) recently posted online a memoir vignette of my brush with infamous French secret … More

Alain Mafart, Dominique Prieur, French Polynesia nuclear testing, French spies, Hao atoll, Rainbow Warrior

Humpty Trumpty

The mind-bending Trumpian world operates in a bulletproof moral and factual vacuum, which has made sarcasm and irony, my tools … More

Alice in Wonderland, Humpty Dumpty, Trumpian world

Coping with Tim

Tim Cope is an Australian adventurer who made a remarkable solo trip by horseback from Mongolia to Hungary over a … More

And Epic Journey through the Land of the Nomads, Eurasian Steppes, On the Trail of Genghis Khan, Tim Cope

Kool Kiwis

Enzed is a great little country, full of civic-minded folk. By the way, little is good. It’s a pity they … More

Bill English, Jacinda Ardern, NZ elecions, Robert Muldoon, Winston Peters

Berlin 1936 Redux 

Recently while on assignment in Berlin your KC correspondent tip-toed in his father’s footsteps at Olympia-Stadion, the site of Hitler’s … More

"Dangerous Games: Australia at the 1936 Nazi Olympics", 1936 Berlin Olympics, Hitler, John O'Hara, Larry Writer, Wrestling

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