Random thoughts and observations
I don’t get as much time as I would like to browse digitised newspapers at the National Library’s marvellous Trove.
However, a brief visit today yielded an interesting snippet regarding my great-great grandparents James and Sarah Evans.
I knew from Shire of Metcalfe rate books they owned a property at Barfold in Central Victoria between 1866 and 1876.
It’s unlikely that capital punishment will ever be reintroduced in Australia, and I don’t have a problem with that. However, my philosophical objections to capital punishment have receded as I get older. In some circumstances I believe it may be appropriate. In February 2009, I wrote an article elsewhere about what should happen to arsonists who ignited the terrible Victorian bushfires. I said the time has come for the community and politicians to seriously consider reintroducing capital punishment.
There is widespread concern that none of the nine males who gang raped a 10-year-old girl in Queensland have been sent to prison. The Queensland Government is appealing the sentences. Six teenagers who pleaded guilty last month were placed on a 12-month probation order and had no conviction recorded against them for the 2005 rape [...]
Karyn writes about a practice called “happy slapping” which happily I’ve not heard of before. She defines it this way: Originally, the idea was to walk up to some random stranger and slap them, while friends recorded the event on their mobile phones. Hilarious, I don’t think! Whatever endorphins that act released obviously became very [...]
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