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An American in Rome...
Every summer since 1976, when unseeded Mark Edmondson upset defending champion John Newcombe, Australians have wondered whether an...
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May 114 min read
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Three elections in a week, one result to come!
Canadians voted last Monday using their non–compulsory first past the post voting system, Australians voted yesterday using their...
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May 47 min read
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Vote early, but not often! The tallyboards are about to light up!
This evening at midnight a quirky feature of Australia’s electoral system comes into effect. A 48 hour ‘media blackout’ is enacted. This...
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Apr 305 min read
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Anyone for a handbag?
The unintended consequences of social changes are often far more potent than the intended ones. In the eras when workers were paid in...
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Apr 175 min read
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A week in politics- settling for some, unsettling for others!
Yes, it’s true. Australians can start voting on Easter Tuesday. In a mere eleven days. There was a time, not so long ago in Australia,...
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Apr 114 min read
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Trumpian consequences- trip, stumble and fall
Yesterday, President Trump announced his most sweeping set of economic tariffs. He, alone amongst all considered opinion, believes the...
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Apr 32 min read
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Retreats, resurrections and elections
Earlier this week I attended an end of term retreat with senior students. It occurred to me that the event and its timing were...
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Apr 16 min read
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What's it all about, Alfie?
What’s the quip?: “Never trust a used car salesman or a specialist”. Well, maybe we will have to add meteorologists to the list. Last...
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Mar 96 min read
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100 years on, are we voting in the right way?
It is often said that adaptation is the key to biological survival and evolution. Many sporting codes have clearly taken that advice to...
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Feb 246 min read
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Hey Mr. President, can you spare us a tariff?
Americans had their Presidential and Congressional elections last November. Australia will have its Federal election by the end of May....
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Feb 166 min read
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Will Advent be advantageous?
Christians prepare for the celebration of Christmas during the season of Advent. In an increasingly secular Australia, the faithless...
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Dec 11, 20245 min read
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Is democracy in or out?
Before we know it the summer season of tennis will begin in Australia. Both Djokovic and Kyrgios, along with the World’s No.1 female...
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Dec 4, 20245 min read
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And the nominations and winners keep coming!
Happy Birthday Mr. President! Joe Biden is 82 today. He is busy trying to carve out his lame duck legacy, even strolling away from the...
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Nov 19, 20245 min read
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The winner takes it all!
Get used to hearing much more about Grover Cleveland! Rarely mentioned amongst the pantheon of American Presidents, Cleveland served as...
lydiajulian1
Nov 6, 20245 min read
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If the Presidential election were a tennis match...
Imagine a tennis match where two old combatants are preparing to recontest the final, having contested it four years before. Suddenly,...
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Oct 29, 20244 min read
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Is he more sinned against than sinning? Whatever one's view, Sinner is winning!
So, the world keeps producing its jolts. The unrelenting reminders of change and mortality. Ethel Kennedy, Robert Kennedy’s widow, dies...
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Oct 14, 20246 min read
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Au revoir Paris, bonjour Flushing Meadow!
It probably is a shock to all other than the most ardent of tennis fans that the US Open starts next Sunday with its qualifying rounds....
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Aug 12, 20246 min read
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Marchons! Oui, Marchons- one week down, one left at the Olympics
Today, 110 years ago, World War One begun. Arguably the defining moment of modern history, the Germans thought they could reach and...
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Aug 4, 20246 min read
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He can bide his time no more...
Well, well, well. The inevitable has occurred. Joe Biden has succumbed to the relentless logic of politics. His party do not believe he...
lydiajulian1
Jul 22, 20244 min read
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Wimbledon is on my mind
Does anyone go to work on a Friday anymore? In this post-Covid world the relative absence of foot and car traffic at the end of a...
lydiajulian1
Jun 30, 20246 min read
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