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

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

Nicely alliterative headline, but news from La Belle France is disturbing. French Mayors with local beaches have decided to ban … More

The sorry saga of Australia’s offshore asylum seeker gulag is not just about bringing suffering and hopelessness to those in … More

The Indonesian government is implementing a ban on the export of some raw mineral ores, particularly nickel and bauxite, to … More

Pope Francis has released a ‘papal exhortation’ of 223 pages of critique on modern life and capitalism. What a contrast … More

Australia’s military is finally pulling up stumps, so to speak, in this blighted land. Our longest war (12 years) has … More

Sorry but the alliteration is irresistible, and the subject is truly shocking. It may be out of our minds at … More

The name Snowden rang a bell for a literary character and the penny finally dropped, to mix metaphors again: Catch … More

Gosh, time flies when you’re entertained by political giants Julia and Tony doing their ‘I’m gunna rip your throat out’ routine and other … More