Like many Australians I’ve been watching the news coverage of the floods in Queensland. The most startling footage I’ve seen has been of the cars zooming down the river. Although the amount of damage caused by the floods is huge…
Aidan Doyle
The Revolution Will Not Be Anthologised
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Carny Knowledge (The Secret History of Melbourne)
I love reading about history. The more I read, the more I realise how much I don’t know. “There are known knowns. These are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say, there are…
Quote of the Day
Australia is now at war. Our duty is quite clear: to gird up our loins and remember that we are Britons. – Joseph Cook, Prime Minister of Australia, 1914
Thoughts on Returning to Australia
It’s been just over a year since I left Japan. It had been six years since I had lived in Japan. Since it’s Australia Day, I thought it was a good opportunity to list some of the differences I’ve noticed…
It was a dark and stormy week
It was a dark and stormy week. There was lots of rain in northern NSW and south-east Queensland. My parents’ house is okay, but some towns near here had to be evacuated and some of the roads were cut off. …
Across Australia By Train
Last month I flew to Perth in Western Australia. It was the first time I’d been to Perth in 22 years. It had changed a lot since I was there. Apparently it had even moved states. Perth is a really…
