Month: January 2018
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Hot Rocks
HECTOR’S DIARY Tasty and distasteful morsels from his regular diet of worms THE CAGE Bali Monday, Jan. 22, 2018 MT Agung staged a further demonstration of its volcanic power the other day, with a Strombolian eruption that showed the mountain’s capacity to pick and choose how it goes off. It suddenly blew […]
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The Left Greens and Australia Day
Former Labor senator and minister Graham Richardson is on a popular (not to say populist) ride in his column in The Australian today, on the twin issues of the Greens and Australia Day. I’ve attached the text of column here for the benefit of the wider readership that it might therefore gain: There was a time […]
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Goodbye and Thanks for All the Words
HECTOR’S DIARY Tasty and distasteful morsels from his regular diet of worms THE CAGE Bali Monday, Jan. 15, 2018 WE’VE had to say goodbye to Jewel Topsfield, who has been the Fairfax media correspondent in Indonesia for three years. It’s one of those rotational things: people get posted in, and then they get […]
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The Sans Culottes Brigade
Saturday, Jan. 13, 2017 WHEN the French actress Catherine Deneuve revealed herself this week to be a woman who believed that men had the right to pester – the obverse of the right of women to tell them to get lost – I waited for the return fire. It wasn’t long coming, and of […]
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Degrees of Idiocy
HECTOR’S DIARY His regular diet of worms and other non-religious fare THE CAGE Bali Sunday, Dec. 24, 2017 Degrees of Idiocy THE President of the Republic, Joko Widodo, familiarised here in the Indonesian way as Jokowi, has just visited Bali. Miraculously, the beaches appeared clear of the middens of muck that despoil them year round, […]
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To Note
I think I have at last managed to administer phoenix serum to my blog, with the assistance (here acknowledged) of the WordPress team. So, excusing Murphy, Sod, and all their works, the Diary and other things should be back up and running again soon. Chin-chin!
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