"I’m high on the bridge, looking over the hill, to the MCG…", sings Paul Kelly. And I’m surprised to find tears pricking my eyes, writes Jay Martin, an Aussie expat living in Poland. This is the first of a regular column.
With only a couple of shopping days until Christmas it’s time to get cracking on the most important shopping list of all: your festive season beer supplies. Christopher McNamara presents the 12 beers of Christmas.
Every age has a great savant -- someone whose enhanced understanding of the world and its mysteries is so uniquely lucid they alone can divine the answers to life’s big questions. For us, that is Gywneth Paltrow, writes Alexandra Patrikios.
It may have been just a straight tourist scam. But when there is a violent sectarian militant group involved, it is hard to be sure. Rafiq Copeland explains an incident in Nairobi, Kenya involving a friendly Ugandan man who may or may not have had terrorist links.
St Jean de Luz is a port town in the Pays Basque in the far south of France. The town sits at the mouth of the river Nivelle, and has a long seafaring history. Nicola Heath arrived at the same time as a blustery squall.
Engine maker Rolls-Royce and Qantas are getting closer to agreeing that the airline can resume flights to Los Angeles using the giant Airbus A380 airliner, but the exact date remains elusive.
It’s commonly taken for granted that a disproportionately large number of fast-food stores in an area is a key reason why the local population often has high rates of obesity, writes Alan Davies of the Melbourne Urbanist.
What if you’re the parents of tweens, who have already travelled to many of the typical Gold Coast et al Aussie destinations. What if you want to holiday somewhere a little different? The Cocos Islands aren't just for asylum seekers, says Alison Drew-Forster.
At one stage I counted ten young street children injecting heroin in the ally around me. Monks slowly walked by on their morning alms. For a Westerner it was an unexpected juxtaposition, writes Allan Soultaris from Cambodia.
When Continental, one of the few US airlines to order the 787 Dreamliner, publicly contradicts Boeing over its latest guidance about how late the plastic jet is going to be, the impact on Qantas becomes more painfully obvious.
