Society

A real hero

Harry Murray was an Australian Australian. That’s how Harry Murray memorial statue committee member Alastair Cameron * described the British Empire’s most...

Tassie devils on the road

Devil Highway ©P.Tapp 1995 Tassie Devils, Tassie Devils, Tassie Devils on the road Four and twenty, more and plenty Tassie devils on...

My lazy foreign life

The Premier that got away

HAVING failed to attract the Infrastructure Minister, Bryan Green MHA, to inspect South Arm Road and see for himself that there is...

The neglected highway

SOUTH Arm Road, which runs from Rokeby through Lauderdale and Sandford to South Arm, once served the rural communities east and south...

The jean genius

THE Mercury of 30 January, 2006, carried the following item from AAP: The Western Australian government will ban jeans and other denim...

Art, truth and politics

In 1958 I wrote the following: ‘There are no hard distinctions between what is real and what is unreal, nor between what...

Global warning

HOW time flies. Here I am stating that I will only comment from time to time to point out the foolery of...

An East Coast riot

Its funny how you’ll see the icon of an emerging new social trend. An ABC cadet journo on her first day on...

Three flights by Mr Badgery

Thursday, September 17, 1914 ON Saturday afternoon nearly 2,000 people were attracted to the show ground at Elwick to witness the first...