On Saturday a young boy in Perth loses three limbs and by Easter Sunday his life is resurrected. The 10-year-old Perth boy who had three limbs surgically reattached after they were severed during a game of backyard basketball was awake and smiling yesterday, despite still being in considerable pain. The dangers of ‘slam dunking’ are [...]

I normally subscribe to the rule of law but in the case of Michael Jackson I just wish they’d fast-forward the trial and lock him up so I don’t have to risk seeing his unsettling weird face on my tv. For years, known in family circles as the fastest channel surfer ever, anywhere, I’ve never [...]

My son Stuart phoned up and ask if I could babysit his dog while he and Jane went south for a break. Sure, son. He won’t be any problem. His name is Reg and he is a ADH inflicted, amphetamine consuming, red cordial drinking teenage male Staffordshire Terrier with a disposition not unlike the Tassie [...]

Photo from a mate just about 200 km north of here. Not unusual in colder climes but in the tropics it’s a rare sight. Hail …and a lot of it.

CAN’T get out of bed in the morning? Scientists at MIT’s Media Lab in the United States have invented an alarm clock called Clocky to make even the doziest sleepers, who repeatedly hit the snooze button, leap out of bed. After the snooze button is pressed, the clock, which is equipped with a set of [...]

Legacy, that unique Australian organization that helps widows and children of deceased war veterans has taking up all my time this last week odd and promises to be as demanding after Easter until the next antique militaria auction scheduled for April 10. As I sit, often alone, in an office assessing, valueing, data entering and [...]

NEW YORK: John DeLorean, the flashy automotive executive whose equally flashy car of the same name proved a financial folly but burned its way into pop culture with the Back to the Future films, has died at the age of 80. Delorean had a checkered life but one of his great achievements has to be [...]

Labours three-mine policy. If ever a Labour politician personified what is wrong with the ALP it has to be Martin Ferguson. In a small article in todays Australian Kevin Foley, South Australia’s Labour Treasurer calls on the ALP to scrap their ‘idiotic’ three-mines policy and Martin counters that the ALP’s three-mine policy is not a [...]

Four years ago an Australian Corporal, Andrew Wratten, heard allegations of Jordanian UN troops soliciting for sex with boys. A subsequent secret investigation led to the expulsion of two Jordanian peacekeepers after an investigation ordered by then UNTAET chief, the late Sergio Vieira de Mello, in July 2001. “Wratten informed PKF (peacekeeping force) that he [...]

That would be right. A 6 metre great white pointer is big enough to take a human in one bite and as we know, they have a long range and it could be hundreds of miles away by now. They have been tracked with satellite receivers from their home in South Australia to two-thirds of [...]