18th August 2014
“You know, in the end, we are all worms, but I do believe I am a glow worm” Winston Churchill once told a friend. Paul Keating, speaking in 2008 agreed “He was a glow worm and he lit up the most miserable epoch of the miserable twentieth century like no one before or after him.” […]
28th August 2013
Indigenous Australians have been on this continent for around 40,000 years. So it was a great privilege to spend 5 days in the Aboriginal community of Hopevale, in Cape York in the far north of Queensland. My principal impression was the warmth of the people I met. Each evening a different family invited me to […]
23rd August 2012
At 135 million years, the Daintree Rainforest is the oldest rainforest on earth. The Yalanji people have lived there for around 40,000 years. I was invited to visit the new indigenous eco-tourism development at Mossman Gorge, just north of Cairns, a week after it opened. Our local guide, Harold, was a mine of information as […]
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15th April 2011
Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd invited the diplomatic corps to visit his home state of Queensland to see how well it is recovering from the terrible January floods. I went with some 70 High Commissioners, Ambassadors and other diplomats. Having been up in Brisbane with William Hague shortly after the floods, it was good to return […]
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