Journal

Old Australian Journal

This page is where we posted news, pictures and anything else about our time in Australia in 1998-1999, before I returned to the UK in January 2000 to start a job as the Government's e-Envoy.

*	Journals
*	Pictures	- including the High Commissioner on holiday!
*	Speeches

Journals

Journal for 31 December 1999
Christmas on the beach, before heading back to the UK
Journal for 5 December 1999
Beginning our farewells
Journal for 2 September 1999
Back to Sydney for English Speaking Union Conference, and then finally to Canberra
Journal of our trip around the north of Australia: 9 July to 26 August
(will be added to as I write up my account - last update 11 Sep: now covers background plus days 1 to 2)
Journal for 9 July 1999
Final preparations for our trip around Australia

Journal for 21 June 1999
Late nights watching cricket and long days travelling to and fro

Journal for 14 June 1999
Almost a parody of diplomatic life ...

Journal for 24 May 1999
Off to the races at Scone Horse Week

Journal for 17 May 1999
Bicycling in the Snowy Mountains

Journal for 5 May 1999
Katie in rural solitude on the Shoalhaven; I flit to and fro as usual

Journal for 18 March 1999
Goodbye to the Rolls; lots of ballooning; and off to Perth again

Journal for 9 March 1999
Getting around to Sydney, Melbourne, Perth and Sydney again

Journal for 13 February 1999
Wet weather ruins the cricket in Melbourne too

Journal for 2 February 1999
Wet weather plans needed for our prom concert

Journal for 28 January 1999
Quiet in Canberra in January

Journal for 11 January 1999
More cricket - and a holiday

Journal for 1 January 1999
Christmas and New Year, triumph in Test and tragedy in Sydney-Hobart

Journal for 23 December
visit to Tasmania and lots of cricket

Journal for 20 November
visits to UK and Adelaide

Journal for 28 October 1998
from the Caulfield Cup to the Melbourne Cup

Journal for 22 September 1998
umpteen speeches as the election approaches

Journal for 17 September 1998
election campaign starts, and Patricia Hewitt and Derry Irvine visit Australia

Journal for 2 September 1998
spring arrives and we head south

Journal for 22 August 1998
off to Darwin and Daly River

Journal for 16 August 1998
visists to Sydney and Fiji

Journal for 18 July 1998
a weekend off skiing

Journal for 30 June 1998

Journal for 25 June 1998
trips to Royal Easter Show, Perth and Melbourne

North West Resources Tour

Photos

A first selection of photos

More photos

Windsurfing to work

Speeches etc

Speech to the Melbourne Scots
St Andrew's Day Dinner, November 1999

Speech at the British High Commission Ball
held to support the Royal Flying Doctor Service; Canberra, November 1999

The Referendum on a Republic
Speech to the Australia-Britain Society in Melbourne, October 1999

The Tale Of The Turkmen Stallion
as told to the Australia-Britain Society in Melbourne, October 1999

Speech to the English Speaking Union Conference
in Sydney in August 1999

Tax Reform in the UK and Australia
to the Queensland ABCC in June 1999

Speech to the Royal Commonwealth Society
at the Queen's Birthday Dinner in Canberra in June 1999

Thatcher and Thatcherism in Retrospect
at the University of New South Wales in June 1999

Another speech on the Euro
at Victorial University in March 1999, covering similar ground but updated

Speech on the Euro
at the University of New South Wales in October 1998

Speech on consitutional reform
at the Australian Institute of International Affairs in July 1998

Speech on Northern Ireland
at the National Press Club in June 1998

Forward to Voyage Round The World in HMS Pandora
my forward to a facsimile edition of a book about the search for the Bounty mutineers

Gordon Brown's Spectator Lecture (November 1997)
Not mine! But well worth reading and not available elsewhere

More to follow as and when.

Alex and Katie