That’s a picture of our letterbox. The number 5 is fairly prominent. There are only four houses in our court, but for some reason we keep getting letters for number 3 delivered to our box.
We think many of our letters are being delivered to number 7, because every so often a bundle of mail is [...]
Our front page tomorrow will have a story based on this media release from the Western Australian Department of Consumer and Employment Protection.
In summary, three Kalgoorlie fast food outlets have been slugged heavy fines for illegally employing children aged under 15.
Regulations state that children under 15 can’t work shifts before 6am or after 10pm and [...]
There was no major surprise in the Victorian election result where Labor has been comfortably returned. Interesting aspects include:
The Nats defied doomsday predictions and retained party status.
The Liberals and Greens failed to increase their primary votes.
The media darlings (Greens) won't win a lower house seat.
Labor no longer holds any seats in Gippsland.
The Labor primary vote [...]
Political junkies will be interested in this article from The Age and will recognise the significance it holds for the seat of Morwell, which includes Traralgon where I grew up.
Several high-profile members of the Traralgon ALP branch have quit the party and one, Lisa Proctor, will stand as an independent and direct preferences to the [...]
The cutting-edge news web site Crikey is offering a two-week free trial, which I’ve taken up.
I used to visit Crikey a lot when Stephen Mayne was writing. He had some excellent sources in the Victorian Liberal and Labor Parties.
The site doesn’t have much free content these days, so I’m interested to try out the subscription [...]
The future of the National Party in Australia is under a cloud following the defection of Victorian Senator Julian McGauran to the Liberals.
Most analysts seem to think the party is in terminal decline. The evidence certainly supports that.
Three-cornered contests after a sitting member retires are invariably won by the Liberal Party.
The question has to be [...]
I’m writing this in ThinkFree Online. It’s a free, web-based Java word processor.
The look and feel is familiar. It’s just like writing in Microsoft Word or OpenOffice, except I’m typing in Firefox.
It seems to be a fully featured word processor, with spell check and formatting options. Documents are saved in .doc format and there is [...]
The government’s bid to abolish compulsory student union fees passed through Federal Parliament tonight after the Family First Senator, Steve Fielding, voted with the majority.
My opinion was with Nationals Senator, Barnaby Joyce, that non-political fees for student services should be retained. This would have meant ongoing funds for student sporting clubs, arts groups, etc. The [...]
I’m fairly fit, but today I used muscles that I didn’t know existed and I’ll definitely pull up sore tomorrow.
Our back yard looks like a First World War battlefield thanks to pipes being laid for connection to the new sewerage scheme. The plumbers left it a right mess.
We need to plant grass seed, and because [...]
