A response to disasters – air, sea, land ….. find the bodies and bring them home
MH17 is one of many disasters to befall Australians – the coast line from Australia\'s beginnings is littered with ship sinkings and much loss of life. The skies have their disasters and such trauma as Thredbo and Granville to name just two..
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Indonesian middle class on same path as new Chinese middle class
The Conversation not that long back reported that the Abbott government has presented Indonesia as a huge opportunity based on its growing middle class and long-term growth prospects.
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Artificial grass has a life in a wide range of situations hitherto unthinkable
In a recent News.com article it states that home owners are faking it by embracing the weed-free alternative to a natural lawn as artificial grass which was once the province of hockey fields.
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Life After Sport will be a constant issue for elite athletes
After the recent Commonwealth Games there was once again a spate of articles relating to life after elite sport such as this The Conversation piece which details some specifics and very helpful too.
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'Andrew Murray Destined to Serve' - a biographical novel by Olea Nel
This book proved to be a most enjoyable and insightful read of internationally acclaimed evangelical leader Andrew Murray of the C19 and early C20. It is written as a novel, which allowed the author to seamlessly weave in historical facts through a well-crafted dialogue.
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The atheist left "plays against the unseen intangibles" to a willing media as co-conspirators
I could wax lyrical with reference after reference to classic examples of where the Left use their influence to cite cases that have little merit over against overwhelming evidence to the contrary and the media lap it up as \'gold\'!
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Mobile Cell phones "unlocking drama" continues around the world
In a recent NZ Herald article it was revealed that the US President signed into law that when a mobile / cell phone contract is over (24 months or whatever) then the phone gets unlocked.
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The sound of specific diesel locomotives are distinctive
As a former locomotive engineman and now the Footplate Padre with 37 years of Christian ministry behind me, just as there are distinctive sermon types, and distinctive ministry styles, and distinctive WWII aeroplanes, there are equally distinctive locomotive sounds.
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Tourism options are at logger heads with this or that community group
Tourism has been one of the Well-Being Australia\'s arenas of ministry since its inception and this has taken many different routes - one of which was Australia\'s Bush Orchestra in Moruya on the NSW south coast.
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Charm School for the Police
One of the outcomes of the recent Glasgow Commonwealth Games in July and August was the nature of policing. One of the television stories during the Games when the commentators were not talking about hurdler Sally Pearson and administrator Eric Hollingworth, was on the Glasgow Police Force.
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Aust and NZ ease of travel remains on the agenda
Here we go again, another push to do something more constructive than the current passport on demand viz customs between Australia and New Zealand. Again travel writer Clive Dorman is sounding like someone shouting across a valley and getting his own echo back.
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A parent's journey - an adult daughter with her own children – with breast cancer
Our eldest daughter was married 2004 and sometime later she discovered that she had lumps in her breasts and these proved to be benign. Over a number of years these lumps were operated on and removed and always proved to be benign. These matters needed to be carefully monitored.
