As per normal around this time of year, shops are filled with spider webs, ghouls, zombies and cemetery scenes with retail assistants in many shops dressed in horror themes, all due to it being Halloween. I understand the commercial forces… Read More ›
Australian
Why I Would Never Be A Foster Parent
We have all been shocked by the murder of 12-year-old Queensland Schoolgirl Tiahleigh Palmer, by her foster father. Predictably and rightly, there have been many calls for a review into the Foster Care system in Queensland, and possibly across the… Read More ›
Guest Blogger–Kirby Stokes: Writing on a Young Daughter’s Perspective After Being Left Fatherless by Suicide.
I have known Kirby for nearly 15 years….Gym Instructor, Neighbour, Friend. Today, 19th August 2016, it is her father’s birthday and so she posted on Social Media a comment about suicide. I thought it was worth sharing wider than just… Read More ›
Loyalty Means Absolutely Nothing to Corporate Australia. Be Disloyal to Save Money.
Here is something I don’t understand about Corporate Australia. A general understanding of retaining clients or customers is that it’s a lot cheaper to retain them than to win new ones. So I am constantly surprised that loyalty holds… Read More ›
Alternative Census Questions – Not Entirely Serious.
What a debacle the 2016 Census has been. During the website crash, the hashtag #alternativecensusquestions started trending on Twitter. The questions tickled my funny bone so I thought I would Blog some of them. A lot of them are from… Read More ›
The ALP Announced Today The Biggest Issue Facing Australia Right Now And It’s Possibly Not What You Think?
The Australian Labor Party today said that the very first bill it will introduce in Parliament, should it win office this weekend, is that of same-sex marriage. This post is not entirely about Marriage Equality…..I am just disappointed that the… Read More ›
Bill Shorten Typifies What is Political Debate in Australia – Name Calling and Bullying.
Upfront this blog is not about Marriage Equality or the Plebiscite. Its about Bill Shorten’s blatant bullying tactics in a recognized form of democracy called a Plebiscite. Sometime in the next few months, the Australian people will get to voice… Read More ›
Guest Blogger Ps Andrew Evans OAM, On What’s Wrong With The Greens.
WHAT IS WRONG WITH THE GREENS AND WHY SHOULD WE PUT THEM LAST? The third party in Australian politics is the Greens. They have nine Senators and one lower house member in the present National parliament. During the Gillard… Read More ›
My Musings on the Federal Election Campaign
In today’s (11th June 2016) Daily Telegraph, Paul Murray writing on the Federal Election on Page 41 made this statement: “Not a day goes by in modern elections without a leader promising to fix a problem with money.” Murray was… Read More ›
Peter Pilt Says He Would Gut A Gorilla To Protect His Daughters.(Strap yourself in).
Today I went to sit down to the Channel Ten 5pm News and as I grabbed the remote I simply couldn’t stomach the Australian leftist media trying to assault my brain/consciousness. (No I am not talking about The Project… Read More ›