Australia voted on Saturday to decide who will run our country for the next three years. It looks like we have a hung parliament so both major parties are now scrambling to ensure the support of independents in an effort to form a minority government. It may be some time before we know who will [...]
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Making a Grand Exit
By now you’re very likely to have heard about Steven Slater, the US JetBlue flight attendant who spat the dummy and activated the aircraft’s emergency slide once his flight landed. He abused passengers then grabbed a couple of beers before heading out on the emergency slide. He was later arrested and could spend up to [...]
Well Below Average
I don’t have all the answers. In fact I don’t have that many at all. While the world seems to scream at us that we should believe in ourselves and that working on our self-esteem should be at the top of out ‘to do list’, I’m realising more and more that I just don’t make [...]
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Time moves on. Hair gets thinner. Skin gathers wrinkles. Eyes don’t see as clearly as they once did. Aches sometimes appear for no reason. It’s not all downhill. Wisdom grows. Life experience becomes richer. I’ve got so much to celebrate. I’m the husband of the world’s most wonderful woman, the father of two thoroughly amazing [...]
Not For Sale
While we’d like to think that slavery was abolished back in the early 1800s, the truth is there are more slaves in the world at this moment than at any other time in history. Some conservative estimates suggest that around thirty million people are enslaved today. It’s a shocking statistic but even more shocking is [...]
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