Australian all-rounder Andrew Symonds was left out of the team to play Bangladesh in Cardiff last night because of a disciplinary matter.
Apparently at the toss, captain Ricky Ponting said Symonds was left out because of a virus.
This raises the interesting issue of truth and ethics in sport. Can a lie ever be excused?
I’m going to [...]
It’s interesting the abortion debate has been revived in Australia after the Coalition’s re-election. The conclusive victory has emboldened social conservatives in the government to speak openly about their ideas and agenda.
I’m opposed to aborton, except in circumstances of rape or where the mother’s life is at risk.
I can empathise with those who extend the [...]
I confronted one of those modern ethical dilemmas today, like you read about in the magazine lift-outs of weekend papers.
I was shopping in the Bi-Lo supermarket at Myrtleford when I noticed some tender chicken breasts selling for about $3.50. Similar merchandise in the cabinet was double the price.
I looked for a use-by date or some [...]
The population of Victoria is five million people, but I was the only one of them today on the summit of our second-highest peak, Mt Feathertop.
The mountain was awe inspiring, humbling, powerful and beautiful in a mesmerising package of contradictions.
Normally I have Friday spare to pursue private business, but I swapped it for today to [...]
I saw a disturbing report on SBS news last night about the Aral Sea disaster in Kazakhstan. The world’s fourth-largest inland sea has been decimated by commercial exploitation and mismanagement. Here are some of the facts:
Forty years ago the Aral Sea surface was 66,100 square kilometers with an average depth of 16.1 metres and a [...]
Well it’s almost sunk in that I’m a Dad again. The twins were dragged reluctantly into the world at 10.26am and 10.27am on Tuesday, December 16, 2003 almost two weeks before Juliet would have been full term in her labor.
The vital details:
James Peter, weight 6lb 12oz
Margaret Johanna, weight 6lb
Mum and babies are doing well. Hopefully [...]
I wrote this article in February 2002 in response to a campaign by Senator Julian McGauran and Tim Fischer to obtain a pardon for English officer “Breaker” Morant, who ordered the killing of prisoners in the Anglo/South African War.
I was annoyed that McGauran took up this issue without any community consultation. It was the only [...]
I'm a 41-year-old father of four working as a newspaper editor at Mount Gambier in South Australia.
