Australia

Even as we picked our mostly valueless property up, I marvelled at the fact that in Canberra, unlike in Dublin, you get storage as standard. Lots of it

New campaign aims to tackle widespread ignorance about HIV, a treatable condition that, contrary to myths, cannot be spread by kissing or using the same utensils

Efforts by police forces of Western Australia and South Australia to recruit Garda members appear to have yielded very few results in recent years

When a doctor came out carrying the green whistle, only seen after the worst of rugby tackles, I knew it was bad

Some things should be ushered into the new year like a much-loved guest being shown into the good room. Other things should be discarded like Christmas cardboard refuse

The extortionate level of property prices there are bound to face a correction some time. When prices crashed here, a generation that bought their first Irish home during the 2000s was stuck

I don’t really know what a new year in Australia might hold. It has a vast unfamiliarity to me that country itself still does

Emigrants sometimes lost touch with relatives who had no way to contact them

Those being pummelled by the cost of rent are living through a form of austerity, their take-home wages and disposable incomes decimated

How do the Irish in Melbourne feel about spending their first festive season Down Under?

Much of what Irish emigrants prize in Australia can be found in continental Europe. The only thing getting in our way is what’s euphemistically called ‘the language barrier’

Geopolitics is a tough game but by getting Papua New Guinea on side, Canberra has shown the NRL is up to the task

That reader should know that, even though I live 3½ hours from the coast, I am taking her concerns on board

It’s a cliffhanger moment for the Irish screen industry. Will producers here be boosted by the kind of levy on streamers now commonly found across the EU?

Official figures suggest national turnout fell to 59.71 per cent in the recent general election, 3.19 per cent down on the 2020 election

Top of the list are people who don’t vote. How dare they whinge about how things are run if they haven’t done the one thing that could have influenced it?

Every year descendants of the thousands of orphaned Irish teenage girls sent to Australia during the Great Famine gather in Melbourne to remember them

Like many emigrants, the reality is that I am more invested in Ireland than the country I have moved to

Wild Geese: Chris Kidney is a carpenter in Melbourne, Australia

What are opponents to voting abroad so afraid of? The explanations of ‘it’s too hard’ or ‘it’s too risky’ feel threadbare and lazy