HeyJaredFrom Whitehall to Wagga
A personal journal tracing how living in Australia reshapes my thinking on UK–Australia relations, defence, security, and geopolitics, using lived experience to examine how each country understands its place in the world and each other.
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From Whitehall to Wagga 26-35 (opens the original)
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With the declaration of spring last week, Sydney’s density seemed to change overnight.Either half the city spent winter hibernating, or half the world’s Instagramers picked the first week of spring to launch the biggest beach assault since D-Day. It’s probably a mix of both.<div class="image2-i
From Whitehall to Wagga 26-34 (opens the original)
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Maddy and I got a puppy. He arrived from the breeder as Baxter, briefly becoming Nelson (owing to my Dutch fiancée's somewhat baffling affection for Admiral Horatio Nelson). He then spent a short period as Rocket before we finally settled on Winston.<im
From Whitehall to Wagga 26-33 (opens the original)
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Maddy and I finally got around to two of the more adult items on our migration to-do list: pension pots and private healthcare.Before moving here, I understood Australia’s superannuation system as one of those institutions that clearly mattered to the country without ever requiring much of me personally. I could follow the politics and economics of it from a distance; I had never needed to think particularly hard about it since it wasn’t my money. That changed quickly on arrival, when I joined t
From Whitehall to Wagga 26-27/32 (opens the original)
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It’s been a little over a month since I last wrote. Longer than I intended, but I’m still here!I’ve found myself reading, thinking and talking about Australia perhaps more than at any point since arriving. Rather than cram a lost month into one post, I’m taking stock of what I want to unpack about this country through the rest of the year. Some of the rough notes I’ve amassed in recent weeks go back to observations I made in January; others come from recent conversations, more deliberate analysi
From Whitehall to Wagga 26-26 (opens the original)
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This is the twenty-sixth edition of From Whitehall to Wagga, which makes it, arithmetically, the halfway point of a year’s worth of weekly writing.I ended up spending this halfway point at the weekend, almost accidentally, at a pub in a place, of all places, called Sydenham, with a bunch of British-Irish expats and the token Dutchie in my life. I even got there on the Metro via a place called Waterloo.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!GsmC
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