I heard a sad story today. It shows the global economic crisis is really beginning to have an impact on Australian life. There has been a lot of bad news lately. BHP Billiton’s decision to close the Ravensthorpe nickel mine, a few months after opening the $2 billion project which employed 1800 people, was one [...]
Old Fuss and Feathers
Mount Gambier trucking magnate and publisher Allan Scott passed away this week, aged 85. I didn’t get to know him well enough to comment much on his extraordinary life, except to say he was a great man by any measure. Visiting Millicent today I met one of his close friends, Rocky Smith, who told me [...]
Diamantina Drover
This is a great Australian song. I was looking for the Redgum version on YouTube, but couldn’t find it. Here is John Williamson’s equally excellent rendition:
Peter Costello’s memoirs
The cartoon by Peter Broelman in today’s Border Watch says it all: Peter Costello lacked the balls to challenge for the leadership.
