Presenter of PM, ABC Radio. Lifetime Lance-Corporal in the Awkward Squad. In bookshops now from MUP: 'Light and Shadow, Memoirs of a Spy’s Son'

Joined February 2009
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30 Apr 2017
Had lunch there in 1975 one time with Gough Whitlam sitting at the next table. So many more memorable meals. RIP No Names. x.com/smh/status/85854648496…

Darlinghurst's No Name restaurant closes after 50 years ow.ly/LIqR30bip3E | @goodfoodAU
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28 Apr 2017
Channel 4 News Anchor, @krishgm, has a proposal. Here it is. Retweet it if you agree with him.......
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Election time - a good time to dust off the best ever campaign poster ever
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Jacques-Henri Lartigue
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The ultimate treasure found in a ploughed field this afternoon - 6,000 yr old Neolithic axe almost as good as day it was knapped.
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30 Apr 2017
In this cyber war game, the Czechs won. The US came in 12th—a step up from last year's dead last. bit.ly/2pvt1bd

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29 Apr 2017
Helmand today: a US marine behind the wheel. On the window: a picture of the last communist president the US helped topple. Long war.
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30 Apr 2017
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@Colvinius If anybody picked up a car key in Goulburn yesterday, could they contact me, as I lost mine - contact @zmkc Many thanks
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Excavated Lancaster which crashed 5/3/1945 at Glabbeek 🇧🇪. Moving new memorial & exhibition to the 8 crew who died inc #RAAF F-S Allan Olsen
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29 Apr 2017
Horrible. Why doesn't Putin government condemn this, arrest someone? "Moscow Activist Blinded in Chemical Attack: themoscowtimes.com/news/acti…

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Turkey just blocked Wikipedia without any explanation independent.co.uk/news/world…
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In Mexico, ‘It’s Easy to Kill a Journalist’, via @nytimes nytimes.com/2017/04/29/world…

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29 Apr 2017
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@Colvinius Portrait of a young woman with Puck the dog, Thérèse Schwartze, 1879-1885. Seen at the @Rijksmuseum this morning
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