The road across Brown Mountain is a vital link between New South Wales’ far south coast and the Monaro region for residents, tourists, and essential services. It also represents…
Life gets more complicated as you grow older. In your teens it’s all so simple – you don’t seem to have a care in the world. The 20s…
I can’t look away from the staring soldier, clutching his AK-47, behind the fence. He tilts his head in confusion, slings his gun over his shoulder and flicks through…
The furrows carved across the landscape by the monstrous Kamaz trucks had been re-covered in sand, the Dakar bivouac sites had long returned to nature and the portaloos consigned…
The Old Strzelecki Track is part of a well-used trade route that dates back prior to European settlement. These days it is popular with riders and 4WDers, as one…
There are no more peaks to be conquered; no depths to be explored. It’s all been done before. If you’re seeking stimulation take a trip to Disneyland. But you know…
To this day, I can remember the face-off between US President John F. Kennedy and Soviet Union leader Nikita Khrushchev in the early 1960s and how my school had prepared…
I was invited on a free trip to Vietnam in 1970. The Australian government was prepared to send me free of charge as long as I was prepared…
