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Something Bigger Than Just An Ordinary Life
Occasionally, you meet someone on Twitter or Facebook that shakes you into action! Last year I wrote about 75 Children Who Need You, and how my friend George Karahalios was seeking to help them via our Facebook group, Kathaluwa. It Happened Again Yes...
Sam Kekovich Lays It Into Wall Street On Australia Day
On January 26 1788, the ‘First Fleet’ under the command of Captain Arthur Phillip landed in Sydney Cove. Today, January 26 is celebrated as ‘Australia Day’, but has also been known down the years as ‘Foundation Day’...
Confusing The Climate Change Debate Helps No One
One thing that really bugs me about the climate change debate is the way that variations in the weather seem to be twisted to suit particular points of view. If the weather’s warmer than at this time last year, global warming is a fact, if it&#...
Life Be In It Today Is More Of Your Life
One of the most successful public education campaigns that I have ever seen would have to be the “Life Be In It’ series from the Australian Federal government. Started in 1975 by the Victorian state government, the program was so successf...
Jack Thompson And The Gearin’s Ghost!
Below: actor Jack Thompson Anyone who knows me at all would know of the affinity that I have for the Blue Mountains area in NSW. For the past little while I have taken groups of tourists and foreign students on tours of the Blue Mountains, concentrat...
Ben Chifley A Local Man
Many countries have had leaders who have come from humble beginnings, and for Australia, this leader was Ben Chifley. Joseph Benedict Chifley was born in Bathurst, NSW, Australia in 1885, the son of an Irish - Australian blacksmith. He left school a...
Beating Writers Block And Mining Your Life For Writing Material
David Bridger recently wrote post about mining your life for writing material. The concept really struck me, because there are so many people writing about so many things, that it can be hard to come up with something new. The best way to do this, is...
Anges Excellent Kokoda Trail Adventure
Trekking In New Guinea With Ange Recchia I’ve come to know Ange quite well since I first met her on Facebook. After meeting her there we also linked on Stumbleupon, Twitter, Digg, Faves and more recently, Plurk. Obviously, Ange is a social netw...
The Value Of Good Customer Relations
One of the things that most of Australia’s on line population hates is the high cost, and poor access to decent broadband services. Australian ISP’s are hampered by the wholesale price that they need to pay, a cost that is a result of poo...
Goodbye To Common Sense As Kangaroos Starve
Miranda Devine, writing in the Sydney Morning Herald is rueing the death of common sense in regard to protests against the kangaroo cull in Australia’s capital city, Canberra. While families mourn the loss of loved ones following the earthquake...
Reflections On The Measure Of A Man
Jack Gibson passed away last night. I’d say that the vast majority of my readers would never have heard of Jack, but he sure made an impact on me. Jack took on the NRL (National Rugby League) team that I have been following since my school day...
Microsoft And Yahoo In Takeover Talks
News Ltd reports that the neverending story of Microsoft’s proposed takeover of Yahoo has at last reached the point where they are at least talking to each other directly. While neither side is offering any guarantees, the Yahoo share price has...
What Is An Aussie Sheila And How Do I Speak Like An Australian
Teeg has been wondering what an Aussie Sheila is… Being willing to help, as always, I have done a bit of research, and included a couple of other terms as well! Australian slang was derived from English Cockney, and Irish roots. It was first im...
My Very Own Bucket List
Teeg has tagged me with The Bucket List! A bucket list is a list of things that I’d like to do before I die. When I first received the challenge, I thought of all the far away places that I’d love to see, and the people that I’d lov...
