Tag Archive | Australia
R for Republic
Australia is not yet a republic, we are a constitutional monarchy. The Queen of England is our head of state. On November 6, 1999 a referendum was held to ask Australians if we wanted to become a republic. I voted no, primarily for two reasons at the time. I could see how expensive the American […]
V for Victoria
The Australian state of Victoria is the state where we live. Where I have lived for most of my life. When I first came to Australia I got a flight into Melbourne, not Sydney (where Mum came from and my planned ultimate destination) and I seem to have just stayed! Melbourne is a lovely city, […]
S for Spiders
I recently put out a call for Questions about Australia as part of the A – Z Challenge. Gilly of Lucid Gypsy wanted to know about Australian spiders as she has heard you are bound to get bitten if you step foot on our shores. Now let me tell you, Gilly is NOT the timid type. […]
Q for Questions
I’ve been slack. VERY slack! Earlier in the year I signed up for the A – Z Challenge and today is the 26th of December. December, in case you hadn’t noticed, is the last month of the year and I have R, S, T, U, V, W, X, Y and Z to go! Terrible state […]
Support MAKE THE CALL
Imogen Bailey is a woman on a mission. Imogen participated in Go Back Where You Came From Series II and aside from being a very busy woman working on her career, she is passionate about the question of children in mandatory detention and dedicates her time to campaigning to try to get the message to […]
P for Politics and Politicians
“War – what is it good for? Absolutely nothing.” One might ask the same question of the use of politics. Like every other country in the world, Australia has politics. Unfortunately, where one finds politics, one also finds that rare breed of beings: politicians. “Blind faith in your leaders, in anything, will get you killed.” […]
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 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 […]
Random Observations of Life 