Never before and never since has a simple wedding caused such dire threats of breaking international…
The Tamsen Chronicles
Oscar Tamsen is a Yamba resident and former foreign correspondent whose work around the world from the early 1950s saw him in Colonial Africa for nearly two decades as a working journalist. Oscar's years in the 'Dark Continent,' as it was then known, had him travelling from Cairo to Cape Town, meeting some of the world's top newsmakers of the time as well as participating in a number of wars and rebellions.
The failure of African Sovereignty
When I worked as a journalist in South Africa 70 years ago, Apartheid was starting to…
Bin Laden and Gaddafi in Africa
When I worked in Africa as a foreign correspondent and journalist, I never suspected that the…
Cairo Radio – Part 2
In the first part of this article on Cairo Radio’s clandestine –and internationally hunted — “down…
They Spied With Their ‘Red’ Eyes
The Australian Government recently revealed it had caught three Communist Chinese spies red-handed and had summarily…
Cairo Radio – Part 1
As a foreign correspondent and journalist, one is continually called on to don the mantle of a…
The Re-Wiring Of Our Minds
Tamsen’s Territory – by Oscar Tamsen As we know only too well, big changes are currently…
They Spied with their ‘Red’ Eyes
Of Cabbages & Kings by Oscar Tamsen The Australian Government recently revealed it had caught three…
Tamsen’s Territory – The U.N. and its New World Order
by Oscar Tamsen The United Nations is quietly encouraging a policy of making all countries adopt…
Words Were His Sword
Of Cabbages and Kings by Oscar Tamsen There is an old adage in the newspaper world…
A World Leader’s Last Wave and Legacy
One hot September day in Africa in the 1960s was the lucky day I and others…
Comment by Oscar Tamsen
We consumers throughout Australia are currently being swamped by multiple discussions over our current serious inflation…
From Africa with Haste
by Oscar Tamsen Modern humanity’s ancestors were reduced to a breeding population of only about 1,300…
Strengthening Our Community
by Oscar Tamsen Since the height of the national Covid Pandemic lock-down three years ago, the…
History Does Repeat Itself!
Our globe is currently under big pressure from all angles and the current restive U.S. –…
African Tribal Life in the Raw
Peacocks do it, bees and wasps do it — and many tribes in Africa do it…
The In’s and Out’s of Inflation
Comment by Oscar Tamsen With the word “inflation” being on everybody’s lips these days and ravaging…
A Creature from the Grave
During one Christmas holiday period in the 1950s I received an urgent telegram suggesting I should…
The Grandfather Who Helped a Queen
Part 2 Continuing the story of a Yamba man’s grandfather who saw serious service as a…