Australia
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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… Continue reading
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Belt and Braces
HECTOR’S DIARY His regular diet of worms and other non-religious fare The Cage, Bali Wednesday, Jul. 12, 2017 DONALD Trump made a remarkable speech in Warsaw ahead of the economic summit he attended later in the historic Hanseatic League city of Hamburg, where he demonstrated exactly why the Group of 20 is now the… Continue reading
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It’s a Scream
HECTOR’S DIARY His regular diet of worms and other non-religious fare The Cage, Bali Wednesday, Jul. 5, 2017 THERE are many ways to judge a man’s character. The gender is specific in this case, and the point is pertinent to the activities of the current president of the United States and, in this instance,… Continue reading
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Statuary Declaration
HECTOR’S DIARY His regular diet of worms and other non-religious fare Candi Dasa, Bali Wednesday, Jun. 28, 2017 TEN days in the blissful zephyrs, beside the azure briny you get in the better parts of the archipelago, can do you a power of good. Such a break provides time to read books – or… Continue reading
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Beggaring Belief
HECTOR’S DIARY His regular diet of worms and other (usually) non-religious fare The Cage, Bali Wednesday, May 31, 2017 FAITH is a personal compact between a person and his or her deity. The faithful, of any ilk, should be honoured for their commitment to a life beyond secular concerns and for the higher… Continue reading
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Talk to the Ants
HECTOR’S DIARY In the Bali Advertiser May 24, 2017 JEWEL Topsfield, the Australian Fairfax newspaper group’s Indonesian correspondent, wrote a lovely piece recently after an extended interview she had with Prabowo Subianto, who probably likes to think of himself as president-in-waiting. We’ll have to wait until 2019 to find out, but in the meantime… Continue reading
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