Robyn Dunphy
Entitlement Mentality: a personal perspective
All forms of media has been nothing short of drowning in Joe Hockey’s suggestion that Australia has an entitlement mentality which needs to be cut back. I am only going to link to one article, for the benefit of our many overseas readers, because this is my personal perspective. I am not entering into the […]
Dear Max Tomlinson
Recently I blasted the Governor of Wisconsin for his weird attitude to women, never dreaming a man in Australia could top it. Well, bloody hell, Max Tomlinson managed to leave me fearing for the future of equality of women yet again. I thought I’d drop Max a little note, but as I don’t have his email, […]
Equal Pay for women at risk?
Equal pay for women just took a beating in some backwoods state of the USA on March 31, 2012 in a very quiet way. My apologies to followers of ours who live in Wisconsin (I know there are a few) but for goodness sake, how the hell did this happen? I don’t often stray from […]
Equality does not mean sameness
On my recent article Bullying isn’t cool, Nancy of Spirit Lights The Way commented: When we accept ourselves “as is,” we are more able to shrug off the irrelevant opinions of others. Instead of poisoning ourselves by internalizing the hate, ignorance, and fear demonstrated by the bullies of life (who are trying to make themselves […]
K for Koala
Choosing a topic for the K instalment of Our A – Z of Australia was easy. Koala. Oh, all right, I could have gone for Kangaroo. That just seemed a little too easy. Besides, I wrote about kangaroo when we had a lovely dinner. My mother chose to have her photo taken at Sydney Zoo […]
J for Jellyfish
We all like jelly, right? At least when we were kids. Oh, for American readers, jelly is not jam to us, although I understand it is to you. Jelly for us is a dessert, usually served with ice-cream, especially after you’ve had your tonsils removed. Jellyfish are amazingly beautiful creatures. Translucent and in some cases […]
Shoot me now, I have an iPad and I like it
As detailed on our “About” page, I am both an accountant and an information technology professional. Many years ago, before I was qualified in either profession, I worked for a company that had a funny little Mac thing. I hated it. I guess that is where my aversion to Apple products started. Back then Apple […]
I for Immigration
Given immigration looms so large in our extended family, I felt this was an appropriate topic for the “I” article of Our A – Z of Australia. The results of the 2011 Census are not yet available, sadly, so I am depending on the 2006 Census data for this look at Australia. Michel Lawrence spent two […]
H for Health, Home and Happiness
I had been struggling to find a suitable “H” topic for Our A – Z of Australia. Mr O has a friend who lives in the USA and is here for a short visit to his wife’s parents. As Mr O starts work on Monday, about the only opportunity he had to enjoy a catchup […]
Random Observations of Life 