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Plans vs Choices – An Aussie expat’s meditation
Not long ago, I met two colleagues for a drink. There we were; three women (two twenty-somethings and a fifty-something) living in a foreign country, with far too many bottles of wine. Before long,...
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Dollar for pound, Australia’s cities are ludicrously overpriced
ARE us expats really surprised by the fact that three Australian cities are now rated as more expensive than London? Are we Australians living in London really shocked that Sydney, Melbourne and Perth...
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All hail the king and queen of Ascot
THE Aussies and the Brits love a good rivalry. I mean really, really enjoy any type of banter that surrounds anything Australian competing against anything or anyone British. And so queue the latest...
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Job-hunting in London, made that little bit harder
YOU all know how it is. Recruitment companies are to the unemployed in London what Moses was to the chosen people. The Skier Guide to the blind Paralympian. The Putin to his Medvedev. Or, maybe more...
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A royal affair at Ascot
By Sandra Tahmasby 100,000 cans of hair spray, 55,000 bottles of fake tan, fake eye lashes, platform heels, skirts, spotted shirts and tonnes of yummy boys in suits! It wasn’t the Royal Enclosure but...
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The wane but rise of the fourth estate
IT was undoubtedly a devastating blow to Australia’s ever-shrinking media industry. One of our country’s oldest newspaper groups, Fairfax Media, announcing major job cuts in Melbourne and Sydney. 1900...
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Has the Aussie voting public disengaged?
AS A keen political follower I’m becoming more and more disinterested in the whole thing in Australia. Period. Is it just me or have they completely lost the plot? Why are we being exposed to such...
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Why are the Poms so unhappy?
WHATEVER happened to good old fashioned customer service. Whatever happened to a bit of general chit-chat, a bit of politeness, a bit of courtesy. London is infamous for being, well, not very good at...
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Time for Australia’s green and gold to shine
FOR a country whose sporting prowess has long been the envy of other nations, well Britain anyway, it’s been a difficult period in Australian sport. This scribe doesn’t pretend to know the answers to...
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Don’t be so tents, go and get your camp on
CAMPING is something that’s not exactly embraced in this country, is it? For Australians living in the UK, it’s rather baffling why camping is almost frowned upon here. The Brits just don’t get it,...
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Five things I’ve already learnt at London 2012
Australian sporting dominance in the pool is over Australia’s greatest ever Olympian said before the Games that the Australian and USA dominance in the pool was over. Well Ian Thorpe was halfway to be...
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Despite it all, Australia stands tall at London 2012
MY COLLEAGUES will take great pride in the fact that this rubbish is being repeated, let alone printed in the UK’s pre-eminent newspaper for Australians living abroad, but these are just some of the...
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Melbourne’s #1 (again) but is it a fair reflection?
IT seems Melbourne is handed this gong every other week. The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) found the capital of Victoria to be the world’s most livable city. It’s Global Livability Survey compares...
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Julian Assange should face his accusers
THE vitriol, the hatred, the sordid attempts at support and the indifference to Julian Assange which has spewed from the pages of every national newspaper across the world, as well as the mouths of...
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A message to all Aussies: take my lead, move to the UK
IT seems like an eternity ago, but at the same time it only feels like yesterday. Our decision to move to London was made with more haste than most would make when considering such a serious move. But...
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Is ‘the Push’ now a pull? UK nationals flock to Australia
IT WAS referred to as ‘the Push’, a heady fraternity of Australian artists, intellectuals and journalists who weaved their way towards London and the UK in the 60s and 70s, making a mark on the...
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Does the culture of misogyny still continue in Australian media?
FORMER newsreader Jo Pearson knows very well just how sexist the media industry can be. Working in television news broadcasting during the somewhat less politically-correct period of the 1980s,...
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Is being called ‘Australian’ a racist slur? One UK court says yes
TO The Rt. Hon. Christopher Grayling, MP, on behalf of the Australian people, My name is Paul Bleakley and I am writing to you in your capacity as Lord Chancellor of the United Kingdom, and thereby...
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NZ defends “stupid fat Australian” racism court ruling
YESTERDAY Paul Bleakley, journalist with Australian Times, questioned a ruling by a UK court that found a woman, Petra Mills, guilty of racially aggravated public disorder after calling her NZ-born...
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The trans-Tasman rivalry: Friendly banter or all-out war?
LIKE all media organisations, Australian Times has a firm commitment to reporting the news impartially and fairly. It is not often that a newspaper like ours finds itself at the centre of controversy...
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