Tag: Tim Hannigan
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HECTOR’S DIARY Bali Advertiser, Jan. 6, 2016
His fortnightly diet of worms and other non-religious experiences A Prime Appointment Helena Studdert, the new Australian consul-general in Bali, comes to the job by an unusual route. She has already held an ambassadorial post – she was Australia’s envoy to Serbia from 2010-2013 – and has some background in the sometimes fractious field…
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HECTOR’S DIARY Bali Advertiser, Dec. 23, 2015
His fortnightly diet of worms and other non-religious experiences A Christmas Story This week we observe the official birthday – though of course its date is wholly notional – of one of Islam’s leading saints, the nabi Isa al-Mahdi, whom Muslims also honour as the Messiah. In the Christian rite, it is Christmas, the…
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HECTOR’S DIARY Bali Advertiser, Mar. 18, 2015
His fortnightly diet of worms and other non-religious experiences Gone to the Dogs The resurgence of rabies in Bali is yet another of those avoidable things that the chaps in charge of the asylum could have avoided if they could have been bothered, or if they hadn’t blown the budget on lots of other things.…
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HECTOR’S DIARY Bali Advertiser, Nov. 13, 2013
His fortnightly diet of worms and other non-religious experiences Skulduggery and Other Local Habits The benefits that accompany living in Bali – or anywhere in Indonesia – far outweigh the demerits of doing so. The culture is inclusive, at least on a superficial level that satisfies most tastes; the people readily return a smile to…
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HECTOR’S DIARY, Bali Advertiser, May 1, 2013
His fortnightly diet of worms and other non-religious experiences You’ve Got to Have Sole We gate-crashed a good meeting recently at the immensely comfortable – for superannuated diarists it is also immensely unaffordable – Semara Luxury Villa Resort on the Ungasan cliffs. Well gate-crashed is perhaps too strong a term: Robert Epstone of…
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Raffles Revealed, in a Javanese context
Indonesians are apt to say they wish their former colonisers had been the British instead of the Dutch. It is a comment anyone who lives in the country, and who talks to ordinary people, hears at least once, if not repeatedly. The argument goes that if the British had run what later became Indonesia there…
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