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I am afraid that I have been awoken from my hibernation by several events occurring contemporaneously. I may have continued to sleep through...

Well, here it is on the first day of spring,2009, in the southern hemisphere. Like all good polar bears, we have been conspicuous by our a...

Let us be frank with each other, as I do not want to make a Blog issue out of what I have to say. We have all come to expect nothing but t...

We are very fortunate in Australia to be governed by more politicians per voter than any other country on earth. We are doubly fortunate i...

Years ago, in another life, before tattoos appeared on every square inch of male and female flesh, I saw a well-tattooed man with black lett...

On 11 April 2008 , our Australian Minister for Broadband and Everything Else Magical, Senator Stevie Conrod, made a big announcement that re...

Can you remember the song that went, “Everybody loves Saturday night”?  Well then, can you remember when those words were meaningful and a...

That Old Year, 2008, was a bit of a fizzer, as we used to say of crackers that failed to go off with a bang, but rather, went “Pphhhsssstt.”...

I am normally pretty quick at the business of solving problems, riddles and conundrums. I used to be renowned for being able to add three tw...

No matter where I go in dear old Oz, I find wizards, Aussie financial wizards. Not only are our wonderful superannuation schemes run by wiza...

In the earlier parts of the twentieth century in New South Wales, a prisoner could be given a sentence that included hard labour. The senten...

The latest global financial crisis has many interesting facets. All of these can be boiled down to frailties of human morality. Perhaps most...

Have you ever wondered why fish and other marine creatures suffer cruel deaths as a result of their ingestion of, or entanglement in, plasti...

Our previously fearless political leaders have declared that we are currently in a worldwide financial crisis. Around the globe, they are ur...

In the event that the global economy collapses and our Chinese lifeboat begins to leak like the Titanic, call in the clowns . Seriously, for...