Friday, May 24th, 2013

James Cheyne

In Chicago, Obama grasps history

Barack Obama's victory speech was ending with an explosion of ticker tape at the precise moment we went live for the evening news in Sydney. Take a look at the great picture I snapped of 7News US correspondent Mike Amor.But you could tell things wer...
November 7, 8:02 pm
In Ohio, Obama tries to party like it's 2008

The massive queue to see Barack Obama speak in Cincinnati, Ohio, stretches right around the block. And after that it stretches right round another block. Thousands of excitable people, t-shirts with his face on. These are the first things that make...
November 6, 8:40 am
Notes from a Republican Rally

Mitt Romney's Nevada campaign headquarters doesn't look like much when you first approach it. Nestled in a strip mall just outside Las Vegas, it shares a building with the local Senate hopeful and the local chicken wings place, I drove straight past...
November 4, 11:46 am
Neil Armstrong – and the most famous words never spoken

Of course we all know the legendary words that WERE spoken by Neil Armstrong when he first walked on the moon (notwithstanding some minor historical debate about “step for man” versus “step for A man”... there was radio interference... don’t ask!) B...
August 28, 3:35 pm
Obama & Beyonce. Ryan VS Rage

Apparently humbled and sobered by the sheer gravity of the epic political fight facing him over the coming weeks and months, Barack Obama has been concentrating on the important stuff. He took to the airwaves in New Mexico to reveal details of his p...
August 20, 4:33 pm
Olympic Opening Ceremony: The Best Thing I've Seen on a Screen

As a 'whingeing Pom' you might expect me to start with a complaint about the weather perhaps, or Mark Cavendish, or the fact I lived in London when they held the games in Sydney and now live in Sydney while they're holding the games in London, but n...
August 1, 1:46 pm
Get that missile off my roof - this isn't Beijing!

There's some amazing Olympics related facts and figures flying about as we thrust toward the opening ceremony. Four billion TV viewers, 20 thousand journalists, 10 thousand athletes …. five thousand cups of pee – just some of the numbers spruiked b...
July 19, 5:14 pm
What US history can teach us about gay marriage

When Barack Obama finally expressed his support for gay marriage last month he sent issue waves pulsating around the world. OK, his words won't change any US laws, nor win/lose him too many presidential votes - but they were a global energiser to th...
June 21, 9:48 am