Author: canberra boy

The Obama Administration’s image has been badly dented by the quick revelation that Osama bin Laden was unarmed when he was shot in the face.  It looks much more like an assassination and it is now hard to picture how...

Around 10 days ago, the UN Environment Program put out a media release about the latest climate science, clearly timed to contribute to the G20 meeting in Pittsburgh. The media release announced findings from the Climate Change...

So does the rest of the world. My title comes from the concluding lines of a piece in the Sunday version of the Sydney Morning Herald, written by a former left-wing Labor politician who, together with her two activist sisters...

Two Vietnam War era Iroquois helicopters have been disturbing my peace this weekend, flying low over Australia’s national capital multiple times on multiple days as part of the interminable celebration of the fortieth...

Violence appeared to be spiralling out of control on Saturday in Dili, the capital of Timor-Leste (East Timor), despite the arrival of more than a thousand troops from Australia, Malaysia and New Zealand since Thursday...