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27 Jan 2024 5 minute read 6 comments B18
Down Under yesterday was Straya Day. I am working in the Pilbara, so I got to experience another Straya Day. Despite being at the very top of Western Australia, in a hostile environment where everything is trying to kill you. The locals determined to...
27 Nov 2023 3 minute read 0 comments Brittany_Aus Explorers
Following our 7-week asthma and pox-inducing tenure in Denman we hit the road. Sensationalism you might say. Perhaps a little. In any case, following one last hurdle, being the increasingly washed out driveway track, we made our way north-west, with...
16 Jul 2023 2 minute read 0 comments jeffrodestructo
In a perfect world ,life is easy and there are no challenges to kill you . all bets pay off and no one loses. Thankfully ,life is full of little surprises like bills ,taxes and Australia . The fabulous land down under where even the cute and cuddly k...
27 Jun 2023 2 minute read 1 comment Coinpaper
Australians do not trust the government and its new bill to combat misinformation on the Internet. The Australian government has released a draft bill "for an Act to amend the law relating to communications, and for related purposes" to ensure Austra...
7 Apr 2023 1 minute read 4 comments ZeroRequiem
Hey Peeps! On April 6th, the Australian Securities & Investments Commission (ASIC) announced, via media release, the cancelation of the "Australian financial services (AFS) licence held by Oztures Trading Pty Ltd, trading as Binance Australia De...
4 Apr 2023 2 minute read 5 comments SweptOverNiagara
Got word this morning that the World Gold Council announced that Singapore's central bank has added another 6.8 tonnes to their reserves. In a previous article, I noted that Singapore added some 45 tonnes in January. Singapore has added over 51 tonne...
17 Mar 2023 2 minute read 5 comments SweptOverNiagara
Kitco News published an article yesterday stating that gold had touched a record high in overnight trading against the Australian dollar, peaking at $2,922.36 before dropping a bit to around $2,885 per ounce for an 8% increase so far this year. In a...
23 Feb 2023 2 minute read 0 comments bengy
A bit more clearing this past week... this time in the front area to unclutter the path that leads to the front door. This area has been weeded recently, and so much of the shrubs needed to have all the dead wood removed and the interfering bran...
22 Feb 2023 7 minute read 2 comments Diomedes
PROLOGUE I wrote this book twenty five years ago in Seattle, where I lived with my wife and child and worked as a self-employed and often unemployed electrician. That I publish it now, after all these years may seem odd, but the ability to write...
20 Feb 2023 15 minute read 2 comments Great White Snark
As my regular readers may know, I have been reading Bill Bryson's Down Under (2001), about his travels through Australia. At various points, he brings up the issue of race relations vis-a-vis Aborigines and white colonists. It makes for pretty upsett...
