YOU can only try your best, however when it involves government you might be better off not getting involved. In this instance, I reflect on my article published in November 2023 titled “A continuing mystery”, which discussed the MH 370 mystery. Yes, I held a private pilot’s license and yes I was a somewhat inexperienced […]
AS USUAL, it’s all about the weather, but some interesting and disturbing side effects are becoming known following research being done overseas. For years we have received health warnings about the fact that really hot weather can create unfortunate circumstances, especially for older people. With our community now focusing on global warming and its health […]
DEAR Jasminda, MY partner wants to go travelling around Australia, camping along the way. While this sounds great in theory, I’m wondering if the reality will be feasible. We both have jobs that are about 70 percent office-based. Rachael O. Dear Rachael, It sounds like the most wonderful adventure. What an experience. ‘Sounds’ being the […]
Greek oyster openers at work opening Port Stephens oysters in Flinders Street, Melbourne at the height of the local oyster industry prior to the mid-1980s.
Oyster growing in the port was for some families little more than a cottage industry. The Davis family survived on a small oyster farm in Swan Bay. Long tongs with claws were used to harvest naturally growing oysters. The Broughton Island shack of Greek fisherman Demetrius ‘Kerosine Tin’ Karageorgis who lived on the island for […]
DEAR Jasminda, AFTER a couple of weeks away, my husband and I have realised that we get along much better when we are away from home. Our relationship improved, we both relaxed for the first time in a long time, and it became apparent that we are soft touches and often feel that others take […]
LAST week I listed the nations with the largest debt loads, measured as a percentage of borrowings in relation to a country’s GDP. It has worried me for some time that there doesn’t appear to be the political will for short term governments to reduce the long-term debt of their nation. It seems they prefer […]
YOU may have seen that LGNSW has released its latest independent review into the costs that the State and Federal Government push on to Local Governments in NSW each year. I have been campaigning for the State and Federal Governments to put a stop to their cost shifting patterns that are increasing the financial burden […]
THE fourth of July is America’s national day annually. The nation’s President, Donald Trump, demanded that legislation containing most of his vision to “Make America Great Again” needed to be put into law by that date this year. He broadly achieved that due to his personal control over the Republican Party, over which he seems […]
