April 7th, 2013
Castlemaine Festival literary evening - poetry, iconic texts, and the seductions of Utopia, for and [...]
January 18th, 2013
Pets bear their illnesses bravely and without complaint. It's often more difficult for the owner. R[...]
January 10th, 2013
Jerusalem is blanketed in white for the first time this Winter. The gold capped Dome of the Rock re[...]
In a village near the Sea of Galilee, archaeologists have found a first-century synagogue. Did Jesus[...]
November 28th, 2012
The Israelis swear it was HIV, the Palestinians swear it was polonium… will digging up his bones set[...]
November 26th, 2012
Israel’s revolutionary rocket-stopping defence shield may have done more to avoid a ground war in Ga[...]
November 16th, 2012
Israel's assassination of Hamas militant leader Ahmed Jabari was the start of a incursion into Gaza,[...]
November 14th, 2012
Tens of thousands of Israelis in bomb shelters as Palestinian militants fire rockets from Gaza, and [...]
November 13th, 2012
A Palestinian hip hop group is raising awareness of ‘honour killings’ through a powerful music[...]
November 3rd, 2012
How often do you sit watching the wedding of someone you’ve never met on the TV news, tear[...]
October 10th, 2012
Female reporters in war zones face all the same stresses as their male colleagues - and a few more. [...]
October 6th, 2012
Sydney Book Launch for Hope Street Jerusalem On a beautiful spring evening following the Grand Fina[...]
September 24th, 2012
Canberra book launch for Hope Street Jerusalem, including the Spring Floriade and a remarkable cake.[...]
September 19th, 2012
Lucky me! In a studio at Gore Hill, late at night, talking to Phillip Adams on Late Night Live about[...]
September 13th, 2012
Did it cause the riots in Egypt and Libya? Four Americans are dead in Libya, including an energet[...]
September 8th, 2012
Quick look at the themes and stories in Irris Makler's new book, Hope Street Jerusalem So we’[...]
I love tomatoes and I love them even more since living overseas. When I was last living in Sydney, b[...]
There's nothing like coming home. I am here in the beautiful dying days of winter for the launch of [...]
September 7th, 2012
Hearty, delicious tomato salad for summer. Serves four. Preparation time 30 minutes. Then put togeth[...]
This is definitely a summer recipe, since it depends on fresh flavourful tomatoes, and only works wh[...]
September 6th, 2012
Joan Juliet Buck – August 2012 Sometimes the cure is worse than the disease, the renovation turns[...]
September 3rd, 2012
It’s a great day. Today I went back to the Old City of Jerusalem for the first time since I w[...]
August 16th, 2012
Two excellent, easy recipes using lemons. Both have a Middle Eastern flavour, but the Preserved lemo[...]
August 15th, 2012
Owls are being used as an alternative to poison, known as rodenticide, in the Galilee It is an Isra[...]
August 14th, 2012
Healthy delicious muffins, perfect for breakfast, or any time. Makes 12 muffins. Total time = 30 mi[...]
