A number of years ago, my wife and I visited Israel. We had hired a car and had been driving for a number of hours in northern Israel along the border with Lebanon then through the Golan Heights stopping at a number of Druze villages along the way. Too good not to...
In 1969, former SA Federal MP Bert Kelly was sacked as Minister for the Navy after the Australian aircraft carrier HMAS Melbourne collided with America’s USS Frank E Evans in the South China Sea. Ministerial responsibility was interpreted differently in those days....
When the great French novelist Victor Hugo was in his 80s, he reflected on his life with the words,I am like a forest that has been continuously cut down; yet each time I am cut down, the new growth has more life than ever. Too good not to SHARE!...
François-Marie Voltaire, the world’s most famous atheist, once proclaimed that although he didn’t believe in God, he employed devout Christians to be his accountant, his cook and his barber because, he said, I don’t want to be robbed, poisoned or have my throat slit!...
Lord Byron, in his moving poem Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, offers the following reflection on life: I seek no sympathies, nor needs,The thorns which I have reaped are of the tree I planted,They have torn me, and I bleedI should have known what fruit would spring from...
Socialism and Marx, or free markets and Schumpeter? It’s a debate that has raged for more than a hundred years. Too good not to SHARE! Socialists contend that although socialism may not have worked out all that well in practice (an understatement...
It’s been said that we are born with clenched fists but die with open hands. Too good not to SHARE! In Linda Ellis’ moving poem, That Little Dash, three stanzas stand out: I read of a man who stood to speakAt the funeral of a friend,He referred to...
Over 40,000 Australian children are currently in government-sponsored care. Approximately 30,000 have been there for more than two years. Fewer than 200 were adopted. Too good not to SHARE! The first question that must be asked is, ‘Why are so many...
“Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the LordHe is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are storedHe hath loosed the fateful lightning of His terrible swift swordHis truth is marching onGlory, glory, hallelujah …” “John Brown’s body lies...
In the book of Revelation, the last book of the Bible, there is a vivid description of The New Jerusalem – The Holy City – referred to in John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress as ‘The Celestial City’, the ultimate heavenly home of believers. Fight shadow bans &...
It is exactly 50 years since Western Mining first discovered the massive gold, silver, copper and uranium ore body at the aptly-named Olympic Dam in South Australia. A golden anniversary indeed!But discovering the ore was just the beginning. Fight shadow bans &...
John Lydon (aka Johnny Rotten of the Sex Pistols) is a clever guy. As Robert McCall (aka Denzil Washington) says to Miles, a troubled teenager, in the movie Equalizer 2, ‘It takes talent to make money, Miles, but it takes brains to keep it’. Regardless of one’s taste...