Fred Pawle
1 April 2022
The Joke’s On Us
To our eternal benefit, Australia has seldom been taken seriously. When Dirk Hartog strayed off course on his way to Indonesia in 1616 and stumbled upon the west coast of our desert-like continent, he took one look around and decided it was of no use to him or his employer, the mighty Dutch East India Company. Hartog had been sent to
2 February 2022
A Portrait of Australia
In tracing the life journey of Bill Leak, journalist and biographer FRED PAWLE also learnt much about worrying changes in Australian culture. Being accused of racism is the best assurance these days of being the opposite. From late 2017 to early 2021, on the rare occasions I found myself in social situations requiring small talk, I would occasionally divulge, in
