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You're looking in the wrong place: Germany lost!

You're looking in the wrong place: Germany lost!

Australia didn\'t lose to Germany in the other World Game - field hockey! Hockey writer and author of five hockey books, Baptist minister Mark Tronson says that the record books shows that Australia beat Germany. .

  • Mackay airline disaster 50 years ago

    Mark Tronson the Well-Being Australia chairman grew up in Mackay Queensland, where his father had been one of the pioneers of the dairy industry on the Eungella range. In 1960 when Mark was a boy of eight, there was a Fokker Friendship airline disaster which he remembers vividly, which rocked the whole community.

  • Investment Due Diligence is easier said than done

    Well Being Australia Chairman, Mark Tronson believes that investment Due Diligence requires some serious thought in the light of continual revelations of investment after investment situations falling over. There have been recent infamous Australian financial institutions going 'bad' and although those 'in the know' may have suspected something was amiss, \'Joe Public\' had no idea.

  • We Create Them and Then We Destroy Them

    While modern reproductive technologies might seem like a blessing to some, they are certainly not free of major problems. Indeed, many people have warned about the brave new world scenarios assisted reproductive technologies (ART) might create.

  • Administrations and political advice

    There are political statements and there are political statements. Some high profile Australians over the years have taken out full page advertisments in both national and city newspapers on one issue or another, but does this have any effect? Apart from some mainline publicity for a day or two, the government of the day retains its policies.

  • ATM machine dispenses gold … there is more

    A report in News.com has revealed that, in the Persian Gulf, if you are sufficiently well-heeled, you can now buy \"gold to go\" from a hotel lobby in the United Arab Emirates - but you don\'t get offered fries with these nuggets.

  • Sharia Finance

    All over the Western world governments are bending over backwards to accommodate sharia finance. This is an interest-free banking and finance system which Muslims want to have run in Western nations as a parallel economic stream.

  • Does the building fit the need?

    In a recent opinion piece in the Sydney Morning Herald, Elizabeth Farrelly said "people are always trying to make architecture mean something" and she cites examples including that of Adolph Hitler and Albert Speer\'s Third Reich design dreams.

  • Flight etiquette for Evangelicals

    The Sydney Morning Herald recently ran a travel story on the 'dos' and 'don\'ts' of airline travel. Etiquette expert Anna Post wrote a set of rules one should follow to ensure a pleasant flight for yourself and your fellow passengers.

  • Australia 21 million, Israel 7.5m population issues

    With Israel continuing to be in the news, it might be interesting to note that Israel\'s Ynetnews revealed that the Central Bureau of Statistics had recently released population data that showed that there are 7,587,000 people living in Israel, 75% of whom are Jewish. Most of the remainder are Arab residents, with about 4 % classified as 'other' – possibly immigrants who have not registered as Jews.

  • Falling Down and Mass Murder

    Right now a lot of unanswered questions surround the latest mass killing, this time in the UK. Derrick Bird is now one of Britain's most notorious killers, having shot dead 12 innocent people before shooting himself. Why did he do it? What pushed him over the edge? Why did he snap?

  • Terrorism, the Media, and Israel

    Here we go again: more "peace activists" – complete with knives, iron rods, and clubs. It all takes me back to my radical student days, when I too was a "peace activist". Indeed, those of us in the New Left were experts at using Orwellian doublespeak to achieve our aims: the overthrow of the West.