A world-record field of 265 women risked life and ankle in Sydney today to contest the Stiletto Sprint.
Blonde 400-metre hurdler Brittney McGlone, 18, was first to cover the 80-metre distance and collected $5000.
A few girls suffered scratches apparently, and not just from other competitors.
I fall over just thinking about trying to walk in high heels, [...]
I’m reading my Jeeves books by PG Wodehouse
again after an absence of more than 15 years. I can say it’s an
absolute pleasure to read these whimsical, happy stories.
There’s nothing sad, hurtful or serious about Jeeves and Bertie Wooster. The books are just pure fun.
The language and social customs are old fashioned by today’s standards, but [...]
Next week’s Alpine Shire Council agenda carries a recommendation
from the Chief Executive, Doug Sharp, to adopt the draft Code of
Governance without alteration.
My submission, referred to here, was the only one received.
Mr Sharp summarises my submission in very selective fashion. He
completely fails to address the major points I made regarding dissent
and briefing sessions.
Justification for the code [...]
I bought a couple of books yesterday and started reading last night for the first time in several months. Unfortunately I’m not off to a good start with Second Time Around by "international best seller" Mary Higgins Clark.
The plot starts in shaky fashion with irate shareholders protesting the collapse of a company. Nothing unusual about [...]
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.
