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Dave Allen on religion
Religion from the perspective of a four-year-old. This video was pointed out to me tonight during a conversation about religion and I just had to share it with our audience. To those of you too young to remember Dave Allen, he was perhaps one of the greatest comedians of my generation my parent’s generation. I […]
Statement of History of Relationship Partner Visa 309/100
Recently I asked a regular reader of this website what else she would like to see me write about as she expressed how helpful she had found other articles I had written. She responded, on Why do I do this?: In my humble opinion, I think the Statutory Declarations and Relationship Statements would be good. […]
What is it with religion and women?
When I was young one golden social rule was never discuss religion, politics or sex. I’ll leave sex alone for today. EDIT: Nothing is this article is mean to detract from the many wonderful men worldwide who not only accept women as their equals but who fight for women’s rights. I am looking at the […]
What the hell is happening to the “civilised” western world?
I brought my family here from what is arguably a third world country. Now I am left trying to explain to them why the western world seems to be crumbling before our very eyes. I’d like to take a couple of prime news issues from the last couple of days to illustrate. Let us first […]
O for Overseas
For those who may be geography challenged, it takes a LONG time to get anywhere from Australia, other than to New Zealand! Yet most Australians travel, unlike some other countries. Look at the map – we are a long way from most other countries! In the 12 months to June 2010, 6.8 million overseas trips […]
Nicolle Flint loses her points by being political
Yesterday I noticed a bit of bother on Twitter over an opinion article by Nicolle Flint in The Age titled Handbag Hit Squad hypocrisy damages merit-based success. Intrigued, I read the article. In my view, Nicolle had some valid points however she destroyed her argument by wrapping it up in a political rally cry for Tony […]
Random Observations of Life 