The fifth of my Fitzsimons columns from summer 08/09. Continue Reading →
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Nathan Rees vs Prince Harry
18 January 2009 > SMH
Episode #4 of my Fitzsimons substitute column from summer 08/09. Continue Reading →
Cricket civility and NYE blasts
11 January 2009 > SMH
Instalment #3 of my columns filling in for Peter Fitzsimons in summer 08/09. Continue Reading →
Fred Nile and the land of trials
3 January 2009 > SMH
Column #2 filling in for Peter Fitzsimons in summer 08/09 Continue Reading →
Small bars and satirical senators
27 December 2008 > SMH
In summer 08/09, I filled in for Peter Fitzsimons’ Fitz Files column for six weeks… this is instalment #1 Continue Reading →
A little Asiavision could do a lot of healing
The credit for today’s united Europe should go, above all, to the Eurovision Song Contest. Just a decade after World War II, it brought the people of that continent together to celebrate their belief in love, hope and appalling pop songs.
French and German alike put aside their differences on that historic first Eurovision night in 1956.
When they voted for the Swiss entrant, Refrain, ahead of the morbid Belgian runner-up, The Drowned People of the River Seine, they were really voting for a brighter future. And once the power of music had joined the people of Europe, today’s all-encompassing European Union was but a small step away. Continue Reading →