Random thoughts and observations
The story that 18-month-old twins were found dead, apparently from neglect, in a Brisbane house defies belief. A 28-year-old man and his 30-year-old partner have been charged with failing to provide the necessities of life. The charges could be upgraded to murder. An earlier court hearing was told that police found the bodies in a [...]
We arrived in South Australia to hear and read the extraordinary story about Charles Kingston, a colonial Premier and founder of Australia, being exhumed for a paternity test at the request of an Adelaide businessman. Sounds like something out of Monty Python doesn’t it? “The Attorney-General, Michael Atkinson, approved an application to exhume the body [...]
Just browsing the Kalgoorlie Miner web site and gained a reminder about this story. An 11-year-old boy on a camping trip discovered a skeleton when he went for a pee. I received a message from the boy’s mother following a similar story we reported a week earlier. That involved a tradesman finding bones while having [...]
This story has surprisingly received no coverage in the national or international media, so I’m posting it here in the hope someone picks it up. An Australian mine worker, Matthew Norman, was among the nine people killed in an accident at the South Deep gold mine operated by Gold Fields near Carletonville outside Johannesburg last [...]
Quirky stories are popular on newspaper web sites. When a man ran down Hannan Street in a mankini on a Saturday morning, it was published to the Kalgoorlie Miner and became one of the most viewed articles. Today, I found a couple of stories involving penguins and seals which would never cut it in the [...]
