Tag: Jewel Topsfield
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Fair Sets You Off
HECTOR’S DIARY Titbits from his regular diet of worms The Cage, Bali Saturday, Mar. 31, 2018 LAND of the fair go, mate! That’s what they say. Hector’s amanuensis got into trouble during the week, because he’d dared to write about a friendly little warning he got not to diss the Aussies, over…
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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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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…
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They’re a Scream
HECTOR’S DIARY His fortnightly diet of worms and other non-religious experiences Bali Aug. 17, 2016 If the acquisitive cartel of private interests and public officials that really runs Bali wants to turn the island into Disneyland, it must be conceded (through gritted teeth) that they can. The electoral check on such excess is even…
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