Wellbeing & Lifestyle

Where does a police state start … ?

Would you risk prison time for doing the right thing? The answer is, nobody should ever have to. In 2004 the Howard...

Response to David Gee’s Statement to the Parliamentary Inquiry into ‘Religious Free Speech’

GST top-up to cost $80 billion …

*Pic: Image from here First published July 3 The cost to the federal budget of changing the GST system to equal-per-capita distribution,...

A critique of Noel Pearson’s agenda and everything

Last month, Leonard Colquhoun produced a short article on Noel Pearson’s draft declaration: ‘Three Stories that Make Australia’ ( http://oldtt.pixelkey.biz/index.php/article/noel-pearson-stories-from-the-heart-of-australia ). As...

‘Mt Wellington Cable Car company should abandon its doomed project’

First published July 1 Cascade’s decision not to grant rights over its land for the location of the terminus of the proposed...

‘Archbishop Philip Wilson to lodge appeal against conviction’

Adelaide Archbishop Philip Wilson says he will lodge an appeal against his conviction for concealing child sexual abuse and won’t immediately resign....

The short-term thinking …

*Pic: Image from here: Tigercat tracked harvester delimbing and topping a felled E. nitens stem during the SMZ harvesting study. Note the...

The Bridgewater Jerry in Sydney

A fantastic shot of the Sydney Harbour Bridge almost obscured, a kind of Whistler image … All harbour traffic was brought to...

French Bulldogs, Faberge and the Romanov Family

*Pic: Cody … Elizabeth Balletta’s cream tulip-eared French Bulldog now in the collection of The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Part IV....

French Bulldogs, Faberge and the Romanov Family

*Pic: Female French bat eared bulldog figurine Saint Petersburg, circa 1914. Possibly the House of Fabergé. Citrine, sapphires, gold; 4 x 2cm....