Australia is wittingly creating a technology divide that threatens to further disadvantage rural and remote areas. I refer to the selective roll-out of broadband technology that’s bypassing most small towns and farming areas. Telstra controls the infrastructure that makes broadband technically possible. Any telecommunications company can establish its own infrastructure, but in both cases it [...]
Generational cusp
I’m going to a school reunion in Traralgon on the Labor Day weekend and the lead-up has made me somewhat nostalgic. The event will commemorate 20 years since our class of ’84 finished secondary school at Lourdes College. I may reflect in this blog on various childhood recollections over the next couple of weeks. The [...]
Ethical dilemma
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 [...]
Sour note as wrong anthem played
Australia’s reputation for being insular and ignorant of world affairs was confirmed at the Davis Cup tennis this week. It’s beyond belief that we managed to play the wrong Spanish anthem. It’s hard to imagine such a debacle happening anywhere else in the world. Okay, at the Winter Olympics once the Austrian anthem was played [...]
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