Aussies

Coral Bay

2008-07-07T00:31:01Z

Gee it’s great to be back touring properly. We cruised into Coral Bay after a 5 day trip from Horsham with proper stops but long driving days. Not the best way to travel but we needed to get moving to get to the hottest areas this side of summer....

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When are we going to stop being considered everyone's dumping ground?

2008-07-06T09:10:28Z

US military planned nerve gas test on Aust troops The US was planning to test Sarin and VX nerve gas on up to 200 Australian combat troops. Defence files have revealed the United States military was planning to test deadly nerve gas on Australian...

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And so to London and Hyde Park

2008-07-06T07:41:48Z

We'd had a few days in London four years ago, and I had always wanted to return to see what I'd missed before. The sense of history in London just gets me every time. Mrs Snowy had lived in London in the late sixties, but there was much that she w...

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ICH today

2008-07-05T22:17:21Z

"A human being is a part of the whole, called by us, "Universe," a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest -- a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This d...

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Is that gospel, George?

2008-07-05T09:43:22Z

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,23974617-12377,00.html By Kim Christian | July 05, 2008 Blessing to buy papal souvenirs CATHOLIC pilgrims and the public will be able to buy papal mementos after Sydney's archbishop gave hi...

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Hitchens, you fat fraud, you supported the killing, maiming and displacement of millions of people.

2008-07-05T09:23:42Z

http://www.alternet.org/rights/90292/?page=entire Warmongerer and neocon Christopher Hitchens just noticed that waterboarding is torture! Stop the presses! Christopher Hitchens just noticed that waterboarding is torture! Hitchens announced ...

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Very, very interesting read. Not another anti US rant, but telling it like it is from (gasp) Murdoch

2008-07-05T08:21:23Z

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,23968711-7583,00.html Nirvana out of American reach Paul Kelly, Editor-at-Large | July 05, 2008 THE energy, financial and political woes that grip the US signal a decisive shift in wor...

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Friday night philosophy

2008-07-04T09:50:35Z

Whenever I travel overseas, I'm always glad to return home to my country, Australia. I suppose some of this has to do with being tired of living out of a suitcase; tired of the frantic pace where one feels one must fill every day with sight seeing...

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I wonder if he knows what he did.

2008-07-04T08:31:11Z

The below article appeared in the newspapers today, which, I imagine, triggered a stampede into Dan Murphy liquor outlets by young and old alike. I'm now sipping on my $1.99/bottle shiraz. So what's it like? Well, it's definitely worth $1.99 a bot...

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The solar panel subsidy

2008-07-04T03:21:38Z

I have just been reading a petition for the removal of the means test for a Solar Subsidy when you put Solar panels on the roof of your house. It makes interesting reading and some of the additional comments make a mockery of supposed environmen...

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