Cynthia Banham
Cynthia Banham is the diplomatic correspondent for The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age. She is also a visiting fellow/journalist in residence at the International Relations Department of the Australian National University.
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Canberra: why the joke is on those who leave
Cynthia Banham This summer I reconnected with an old acquaintance, Edith Campbell Berry, the plucky Australian diplomat posted to the League of Nations in the 1920s.
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Mature type seeks romance, deserves dignity and respect
Cynthia Banham For some time now, I've been cutting out personals ads from The New York Review of Books. I'm not looking for love - it's just that there's something intoxicating about these old-fashioned appeals to...
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There can be freedom under the veil
Cynthia Banham Tucked away on the campus of the Australian National University is my favourite building in Canberra: the National Film and Sound Archive.
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The write stuff? But there can be trickery in all that tweeting
Cynthia Banham Having never used Facebook or sent a tweet, and with no desire to do so, I am what you might call a social media sceptic.
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Listen to Tolstoy for a true reading of the toll war takes
Cynthia Banham For too long - a decade, perhaps - I had wanted to read War and Peace. A bit like running a marathon, reading Leo Tolstoy's 19th century masterpiece about the Russian aristocracy and the Napoleonic...
