Random thoughts and observations
I went to the Kalgoorlie Boulder Racing Club today to experience the atmosphere of Boulder Cup day. Sadly for a firehorse, my allergy to horses restricts the time I can spend at race meetings. The Boulder Cup though has a great atmosphere. It was a perfect, mild sunny day with a good-size crowd. I checked [...]
The handling of the equine influenza scare in Australia leaves a lot to be desired. The confirmation of cases in Queensland and New South Wales was disturbing and warranted an immediate lockdown in those states. As horses and people in the racing industry frequently cross state borders it would have been appropriate to place authorities [...]
American thriller writer Stephen King visited Kalgoorlie today. The Kalgoorlie Miner caught up with him for a chat. The photograph is by Mary Mills and the story by Alicia Bridges:
I have been working in the media industry for 20 years. I had 13 years as a reporter, editor and manager, then a five-year interlude in public relations before returning to newspapers early last year as editor of the Kalgoorlie Miner. We all learn through living and working. There is no substitute for life experience. [...]
Up until the late 1970s the Labor Party and the Country Party were advocates of decentralisation. There was a commonly held belief that Australia’s population should not be too concentrated in the capital cities. In 1966 Gough Whitlam delivered a speech in which he said that decentralisation was necessary to cut down “the vast social [...]
