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A nation behaving badly

Mar 30th, 2009
by Rodney Olsen.
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Are Australians the ultimate ugly tourists?
It seems we’re costing Australian tax payers more and more while we’re overseas and dying abroad at an ever increaasing rate. We keep getting arrested while travelling and we apparently don’t care much for those in authority. We also need rescuing a lot more that we used to.
The information has [...]

See you soon, James

Jun 27th, 2008
by Rodney Olsen.
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I’m battling to stay awake.
I’d go to bed but I need to head back into work this evening to give a youth group a tour of the radio station.
I got about two and a half to three hours sleep last night because we had to get up at 2:00 a.m. to take James to the [...]

The day arrives

Apr 5th, 2008
by Rodney Olsen.
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Posting may be intermittent over the next couple of weeks.
I’m the only one up in my house at the moment but very soon we’ll all be sharing our last breakfast together for ten days.
I have to be at the airport at around 9:45 to fly out at 10:45. Between now and then I need to [...]

Come fly with me

Apr 4th, 2008
by Rodney Olsen.
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I’m getting ready for some very long flights over the next day or so.
As I mentioned before I’m heading to Haiti with Compassion Australia to see their work amongst people living in desperate poverty.
I love flying but sometimes being in the air for fourteen or so hours at a time can be a little tiring. [...]

Heading to Haiti

Jan 10th, 2008
by Rodney Olsen.
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I’ve hinted a couple of times that I’ll be taking a long trip in 2008.
In April this year I’ll be joining a small group of others to fly to Haiti to observe the aid work of Compassion.
Compassion works with the poorest of the poor children in over 25 developing countries around the world in Africa, [...]