Random thoughts and observations
I cringe whenever I agree with former Victorian Premier Jeff Kennett. I’m old enough to remember when Malcolm Fraser was Prime Minister. I never agreed with him much at the time and that hasn’t changed. I think of Fraser as Mugabe’s mate. Jeff Kennett tore the guts out of country Victoria. His forced amalgamation of councils ripped the heart and soul from many towns. Funnily enough, as Hawthorn Football Club president he sometimes makes sense.
The Victorian election should be a close contest. I think Labor will just win. I’m interested to see how my former journalist colleague at the Bairnsdale Advertiser, Tim Bull, goes for the Nationals in Gippsland East against independent Craig Ingram.
Today we visited Milawa and Beechworth. I wrote about the Milawa Cheese Factory and Milawa Mustards in February 2005. Not much has changed. They are still wonderful places to visit. This time we also went to Walkabout Apiaries, where they offer honey tasting and sales. Unfortunately we followed a bus load of elderly tourists into [...]
We enjoyed a visit to Lake Buffalo today, about 22km from where we are staying, to cool down. Lake Buffalo is a Goulburn Murray Water storage on the Buffalo River, 24km south of Myrtleford. It lies at the foot of the western slope of Mount Buffalo National Park, and is a popular fishing, water skiing [...]
Describing a political party, if I said there were fights on the floor of the party conference, a strident radical wing, socialist tendencies and legislation to introduce a public gas utility you’d probably assume I was talking about the Australian Labor Party. In fact I would be describing the Victorian Country Party, which was the [...]
