I’ll be absent for a week helping out at a school Geography excursion in the NSW/QLD Border ranges. Argue amongst yourselves until I get back.

Julia Gillard’s tortured logic

Writing about the Vietnam War in 2000 Regarded as a watershed, too, was press icon Walter Cronkite’s Feb. 27, 1968, broadcast saying the war was “mired in stalemate” and the “only rational way out then will be to negotiate, not as victors, but as honourable people . . . “. During TET 68 the NVA [...]

She has tagged Jim Cairns as one of her heroes.

Young Jessica Watson did well and her ability to ‘just do it! augers well for her life. I also like the fact that she knows she isn’t a hero and corrected our seemingly uneducated PM when he tagged her as one, whilst hanging around like a bad smell hoping to pick up some votes. Heroes [...]

Two men face charges and fines of more than $27,000 after allegedly collecting bones from a dead whale on a Mornington Peninsula beach. Wildlife officers have recovered about 10 bones believed to have been removed from a dead blue whale that washed up near Cyril’s Beach at Flinders in the Mornington Peninsula National Park. I [...]

The Courier Mail reports the Rudd Government have placed 79 illegal boat people in a four star motel in Brisbane. The motel is just down the road from me and it’s not my first choice in accommodation as it’s too expensive. The Palms Motel in suburban Brisbane reportedly has been awarded a $1.2 million government [...]

World War 1 had just finished and the family were still mourning their dead. Manned flight had been a possibility for a mere thirteen years and William Morris Hughes was the Prime minister. Born into a pioneering family in Pemberton, Western Australia on 28 November, 1919 was one Phyllis May Guppy, my mother. Mum’s father [...]

One of these pictured is the PM