Voter empowerment – a book review
Richard Walsh is tackling voter empowerment head on with some novel ideas on how we the voters may get the elected representatives that we deserve rather than the party delegates who serve us so poorly today.
Ubud Embrace
Ubud is said to be the kind of place that will either embrace you or “spit you out”. It draws you in with it’s quiet charm and the warm smile of its inhabitants, or it revolts your senses with its dirty roads, potholes, unfinished buildings and the swarm of tourists...
Now that we know…
Now that we know that a “man” who regularly expresses the most vile sentiments has been elected president of the most powerful country in the world, what will happen next? A few days have passed and like so many others I have read countless opinion pieces and their...
Skippy meets the bird
Even after 26 years in Australia the kangaroo still amazes me whenever I see one. On my recent camping trip, after a morning of rain, confined as I was to my little but thankfully dry tent, the skies were clearing and I could get up to meet the world outside. As I...
The spider and his family
[Published in The Australian on April 16th, 2016] On my recent road-trip down the NSW coast I camped for a couple of nights at beautiful Diamond Heads in Cowdry National Park. Arriving mid afternoon, having set up my little tent in a peaceful well protected area, I...
Snowy River vs Roadworks – are we still the clever country?
Driving from the Gold Coast to Sydney along the Pacific Highway is like driving through an endless series of loosely connected roads. It is a real test of ones patience as every time you hit a stretch of road with two lanes and 100 or 110k speed limit, you know it is...
India – a road-trip through sensory overload
I had the opportunity to travel to India in November 2011 – it was essentially a business trip, but the people I met went out of their way to show off their country, and I also had a weekend spent mainly in Agra – the site of the Taj Mahal. The Taj Mahal...Get my book!
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