As federal Treasurer Jim Chalmers cranks up the spending, fuels inflation, remains oblivious to the impacts on mortgages and home ownership while ignoring the best advice from the Reserve Bank, […]
Read MoreHunter tragedy
The beautiful Hunter Valley landscape has always been utilised for amazing wedding photos, optimising our glorious weather for a lifelong montage of gorgeous couples, photographed against a backdrop of blue […]
Read MoreTributes to a Tele Letters favourite
While perhaps an exception, having written my first published Letter to the Editor in my teens, there is little doubt that those currently engaged in this fun enterprise are a […]
Read MoreTragedy for our thin blue line
As normal radio broadcasting at 1030pm was interrupted for an emergency press conference in Brisbane with the police commissioner, the news was not going to be good. Tragically, our worst […]
Read MoreTragic lessons in death
The notion that Covid would only kill the frail and elderly has been long discarded, with the clinical evolution of young people without underlying illnesses succumbing to the virus. (Anti-vax […]
Read MoreGolf club development a chance to pay respects
The contrary responses from the Daily Telegraph’s letter writers on the decision-making of the Oatlands Golf Club highlights the complexities being grappled with and the sentimental value of a monument. […]
Read MoreTimely operation
Having spent a medical career caring for patients with vascular disease often requiring surgical interventions, I applaud the insightful publicity afforded to Bert Newton and his battle with diabetes. (Bert’s […]
Read MoreMomentous idea sparked by tragedy
The Abdallah family’s quest to launch February 1, 2021, as “I-Forgive-Day (i4Give)” is momentous. It should go worldwide (Forgive not forget, 21/12). Forgiving a perceived error is magnificent therapy and […]
Read MoreWorld loses a good guy
Francophiles in Australia might well lament the passing of former President Valery Giscard d’Estang, one of the youngest presidents since Napoleon and the longest survivor at 94. (Vale Valery, 4/12). […]
Read MoreMarvellous Marcella
News that Marcella Zemanek is stepping away from Charlie Teo’s charity after a constant affiliation since her broadcaster husband’s death is a milestone. (A beauty for brains, 3/10). Hard to […]
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