Personal Reflections

Today's Monday Forum focuses on one current issue in Australia life: declining community cohesion. As always, feel free to go in whateve...

Proposed Sporting Developments, Astrolabe Park Daceyville Update 8 August. Since I wrote this post Sydney Water has stated that it i...

I receive multiple phishing attempts. This is the first time I have been subject to a direct personal blackmail attempt. I am sharing it bec...

Just over a month since my last post discussing President Trump. Since then, he has continued to flutter the dovecotes.A lot of the commenta...

Autodidact - a self-taught person. Australian Labor Prime Minister Ben Chifley   was an example, another was steel magnate Andrew Carnegi...

Today's Forum sets up two linked assertions for discussion. The first is that mainstreaming makes no automatic sense. The second is is...

Historian and former diplomat Klaus Loewald (right), shown here with fellow Dunera internee Hans Marcus on the fiftieth anniversary of th...

Aboriginal camp near Armidale. Taken by C Brown Photographer who was working in Armidale in 1892. Seventy years ago, convict records ris...

In a brief discussion in comments on Tony Hughes-D'Aeth and Friday essay: Dark Emu and the blindness of Australian agriculture: a respon...

Earlier in June I mentioned ( Monday Forum - fin de siècle, the decadents and other such matters ) that my train reading  was Holbrook Jacks...

It's been a while, well a very long while, since I did one of my wanders around the blogosphere. My focuses have taken me in a different...

I have chosen this short piece written in 2012 to introduce my section on Aboriginal New England because it is an attempt to bring alive, t...