Letter from the North
It’s a strange thing about Australians: they don’t have a strong sense of the sheer size of their country. Australia, for the record, is huge.
Letter From Mali
I met a French ambassador recently. “Congratulations”, I gushed. “You have shown great courage and leadership in Mali.” He graciously thanked me and then tried to persuade me Australia should…
Letter from Europe
This summer my reading included a stunning new history of the causes of the First World War called The Sleepwalkers, written by the Cambridge based historian Christopher Clark.
Letter from Tokyo
I often bore people with my list of the 10 cities you have to see before you die. Cities like Rome and Paris, Istanbul and Rio de Janeiro, New York…
Letter from Dubai
The other day I caught the new direct flight from Adelaide to Dubai. I arrived, Dubai time, at 5am in the morning fresh and lively having had a nine-hour sleep…
Letter from New York
Four days after Australia was successfully elected to the Security Council for a two-year term I was in New York myself for consultations with the Secretary General and other United…
Letter from Cyprus
Frankly, I’ve been shocked by the violence of the reaction. To kill the American Ambassador to Libya because some screwball in America made an offensive film is a terrible thing.…
Letter from Beijing
The first time I visited China I was a bag carrier for the then Prime Minister, Malcolm Fraser. It was August 1982. Frankly, the place was forbidding. There were few…
Letter from America
Talk about a miscalculation. I was in New York on UN business recently and found myself at a spare end for the weekend.
Letter From Greece
In my family, we love holidays and who can blame us? This year, we booked a week with friends on the Greek island of Corfu.
Letter from Cyprus
The warm breeze of spring is finally embracing Cyprus. So far, 2012 has been unusually wet and cool. For most of the year, Cyprus is brown and semi-arid but this…
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