When I taught English in Japan, I’d often ask students what they liked most about living in Japan. The two most common answers were: Japanese food and the fact that Japan has four seasons. The second answer initially struck me as …
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 …
Carny Knowledge (The Secret History of Melbourne) Read more »
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