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Severe Weather Warning Placed in Western Australia

24 May 2020 1 minute read 0 comments AverageVancouverite

The Australian west coast is experiencing a powerful storm after remnants of tropical cyclone Mangga interacted with a cold front, generating torrential rains, strong winds, and storm surges of up to 8 meters (26 feet). According to the Australian Bu...

Mrs Macquarie's Point, Sydney, Australia

16 May 2020 1 minute read 1 comment Ghengis

  Sydney, Australia, is a picturesque city, the oldest and largest in Australia. The area I took this photo from is a small peninsula called Yurong Point or more commonly called Mrs Macquarie's Point. It was named after the wife of...

Australian wildlife

13 May 2020 1 minute read 0 comments Ghengis

Australia is home to many unusual animals that you won't find anywhere else in the world. This is a Koala, often incorrectly called a Koala Bear. The koala is more closely related to the sloth than the bear. Shy, slow moving, gentle and...

Dappled skies

10 May 2020 1 minute read 2 comments Ghengis

One of my favourite subjects is sunrise and sunset. In Australia there are some spectacular sunsets, a few of which I have shared here. These were all taken in Mackay, North Queensland. Unfortunately, the sunsets in Vietnam are nowhere...

Brisbane, Australia

6 May 2020 1 minute read 0 comments Ghengis

Sunrise from Mt Gravatt, the highest spot in Brisbane. Brisbane is a sprawling city. I remember when U was a teenager, Brisbane and Los Angeles were the 2 largest cities in the world on a per capita basis - Brisbane in those days had a p...

Vechain, Mastercard and Alipay Join Australian Supply Chain Consortium

5 May 2020 1 minute read 0 comments Abhimanyu Krishnan

VeChain (VET), Mastercard and Alipay will all join Australia’s supply chain consortium, the APAC Provenance Council, as revealed by a tweet posted by VeChain's Head of Business Development, Sarah Nabaa, on May 4. The consortium will focus on supply c...

Five Injured in Australia Knife Attack

3 May 2020 1 minute read 0 comments AverageVancouverite

Police forces in South Hedland, the Pilbara region, Australia, shot and killed a man after he slashed or stabbed 5 people at the South Hedland Square shopping center. Currently, two people are in serious condition. According to local media, police of...

A big Auger

26 Apr 2020 1 minute read 2 comments Ghengis

I used to run an electrical company that specialised in mining services. My brother-in-law is an electrician who developed a special light for the mining industry. He took the bulb from a Phillips lamp, the casing from another brand I can't rem...

While Oil Prices Plummet, Crypto Project Power Ledger Rolls Out Solar Trading in Australia

22 Apr 2020 1 minute read 0 comments Abhimanyu Krishnan

Clean energy focused project Power Ledger (POWR), based in Australia, on April 22 revealed that it had begun rolling out solar trading services in association with firm Nicheliving in the city of Inglewood. Meanwhile, oil continues to languish in its...

Australia slaps Google and Facebook

20 Apr 2020 1 minute read 2 comments 10 minutes

As we know, Facebook and Google have absolute dominance in the digital advertising market and benefit greatly from the content of news publishers on their platforms, social media, search queries and digital videos. This has a huge impact on the Austr...