Sunny Side Up

Last night at 450 Lygon Street, my home for the last nine months. Here’s the view early this morning. You’ll notice the new graffiti on the ...

Let me tell you about a terrific new book, Robert Kenny’s The Lamb Enters the Dreaming: Nathanael Pepper and the Ruptured World (Melbourne:...

“Are you glad to be going back?” I'm asked. “Of course I am,” I say, not sure whether it was rude to have said 'of course.' “But...

As the drought finally seems to be ending - lots of rain throughout the land - controversy over the Prime Minister's "takeover ...

I wrote last week that I thought it was my last trip up the worn steps in the Trades Hall to the Pitjantjatjara group. Not quite. Six of us...

Don’t know if it’s made its way into the international news, but there’s just been a big change in the lives of Aboriginal Australians. In r...

Some of you may remember that my very first post on arriving in Australia had a picture of a meandering stream, seen from the air between S...

I love the surf and what it does to cliffs, so I was on cloud nine watching these windswept Pacific beauties crashing onto the beaches at Ma...

Sydney's Anzac Memorial is a sight to see, an art deco mausoleum at the end of an avenue of trees and a reflecting pool. As you walk up ...

Just got home from Sydney, which seems impossibly beautiful, the kind of place too glamorous and lovely for anyone to actually live there. ...

No wonder Melburnians have a complex. It's like meeting someone's glamorous, slightly risque and ever so much more experienced sibli...

Here's a picture I've long been meaning to post - the steps of the Trades Hall, home of the union movement in Victoria and the place...

So I am indeed going to Sydney for a few days, leaving Tuesday and returning Friday. Part of me is worried I'll fall in love and conclud...

Just came back from a few days at my sister's in Mount Macedon. Glorious scenery, and less than an hour from Melbourne - they've lan...

Tuesday night I was dropped off near my place in Carlton by a great chef, along with a gifted young saxophonist I'd just heard play. How...

Just over three weeks to go, which seems to me a useless chunk of time. Three days I can manage or three months. Or three weeks in a place I...

Today's Queen's birthday, a public holiday. I'd forgotten about her, and her connection to Australia. So busy looking at the ani...

There are so many things about Australia I haven't had a chance to mention in this blog (not to mention the things I don't know yet!...

A friend of mine has just published a book which will challenge everything you think you know about sushi and its arrival in America. (I ce...

Spent another few days up in Macedon with my sister's family. Exciting to be getting to know a new place, especially one as scenic as th...