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On our last day in Australia we accompanied some friends to the polling station. One of the group was casting his first vote as an Australian citizen and so it was an auspicious day for him. It was quite amazing as a British voter, to see the long line of Aussies waiting to cast their [...]

We finally completed our circuit of Eastern Australia by driving from Adelaide to Melbourne last week. We passed the turn-off where we had peeled right to the Grampians over ten months ago and felt satisfied at having come full circle. Although we had to miss out Darwin and Western Australia, we are confident that we [...]

Over in the Shop Smart pages, we have been receiving a lot of requests for Athena 7 Minute Lift anti-wrinkle cream, after this product was featured on This Morning and the Lorraine Kelly show in the UK this week. Read the Shop Smart Athena 7 Minute Lift entry here.
Athena 7 Minute Lift is claimed to [...]

Following my post the other day with the remix someone did to replicate the live version Daft Punk did mixing their classic Around the World and Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger tracks, I have found a good copy of them doing this live.
An awesome tune. It is a shame we are leaving Australia ten days before [...]

Well, the time is almost upon us when we have to leave Australia before we’re forcibly removed: our visa runs out next month, and we’ve booked some flights away, next Sunday, from Melbourne.
Following the sale of our car to some nice Germans here in Adelaide, we have decided to hire a vehicle to complete the [...]

I make no apology this time. I’m doing it again - posting a video of a great song that I’m listening to right now.
This Daft Punk remix of Around the World and Harder, Better is one of my favourites: the two songs alone are a little tired as I played them to death, but together [...]

An article entitled “Law has been left behind by new media” appeared the “The Australian” newspaper today and complains that jurors have access to internet fora when the rest of the media are banned for fear of prejudicing a trial. I’d just like to take up the authors, Peter Faris and Greg Barns, on [...]

In preparation for an article on Autralian uranium exports, I spoke to a friend about the nuclear issue. Here is an edited and paraphrased version of a lively discussion.
My friend proposed an argument put to him by a colleague, namely that the idea of a British nuclear deterrent is now defunct because we, as “deterrers” [...]

There’s a cold going round our house and, given the high levels of vitamin C in lemons, I decided to do some home-cooking. A mean feat for someone as haphazard as myself. If I can do it (without much of the appropriate equipment), so can you.

President Musharraf’s declaration of an emergency in Pakistan presents the West with effective blackmail. Ousting the President of Pakistan runs the risk of giving nuclear arms to extreme Islamists, another military despot or the descent of a restless and divided people into anarchy similar to that of Afghanistan. However, Musharraf’s flagrant disregard for his own [...]