I received an email newsletter from a Cairns (far north Queensland) marketing firm, talking about the ‘Cairns Highlands’. They are referring to what has always been known as the Atherton Tablelands, named after John Atherton who founded the town of Mareeba in 1877, and after whom the town of Atherton is named. The Reef & […]
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The Atherton Tablelands & tourism authorities penchant for changing place names
February 21st, 2009Foreign Investment Review Board (FIRB)
February 12th, 2009The Australian Federal Government keeps an eye on what is being bought up by overseas interests – in particular urban and rural land sales, and investment into Australian-owned businesses – via the Foreign Investment Review Board. The FIRB examines prospective overseas purchases which are above certain percentages in value – considering whether the sale is […]
PETA – at it again
February 7th, 2009PETA are said to want to ban guide dogs for the blind, and they have seized the opportunity to push for a ban on all horse-drawn carriages in Vienna, after a drunken driver caused an accident. I wonder, do PETA members squash flies, let ants and spiders invade their houses, and let ticks, fleas and […]
‘Australia’ Film Travel
February 6th, 2009Travelling to the locations where ‘Australia’ was filmed ‘Strickland House’ – heritage listed property in Vaucluse, Eastern Sydney, NSW: Built in the 1850s, Strickland House was owned by William Charles Wentworth and originally called ‘Carrara’. The extensive grounds include a two-storey coachhouse and stables. It is registered by the National Trust and publicly owned. Strickland […]
Floods in northern Australia
February 5th, 2009Everyone has seen footage of Ingham and other flooded areas on the east coast. But just as happened in 1974, flooding in remote areas is being relatively overlooked. Very little of this devastation has appeared in the media and they are receiving next-to-no government assistance. Until John Nelson sent photographs to media organisations in early […]
The forgotten dangers of heatstroke – perhaps more likely now than ever before
January 30th, 2009Maria Ann Soper’s death in January 1999 at the age of 21 was a tragic reminder of how dangerous it is to overheat and dehydrate in the hot, humid weather of the northern wet season, and how quickly death can occur. If it isn’t raining in January, it is usually the hottest month of the […]
‘Australia’ (the film)
January 28th, 2009Baz Luhrmann was quoted as saying he didn’t make films for critics, he made them for audiences. (So if a film was good, word-of-mouth would eventually get people in to see it – regardless of what was published in the press.) More than 3 million Australians, out of a population of just 21.2 million, have […]
Butchering the Australian language
January 25th, 2009I don’t know who wrote the half-page Cairns Regional Council Cairns Post newspaper ad for the Australia Day Celebrations, but it must have been either a backpacking pom on work experience, or an Australian who ought to be deported. Every Australian knows that ‘Aussie’ is spelt with two s’s, NOT z’s. But it really was […]
The new Cattle Council of Australia president
January 20th, 2009Last November Greg Brown, a cattle producer from Mt Garnet (nth Qld) was elected President of the Cattle Council of Australia. I don’t know Greg, but I do know his son Alistair. Alistair and his wife Nellie run Brown Gully Photography & Framing at Roma, and were responsible for the best-run exhibition that I’ve ever […]
The Sherwin family saga
January 18th, 2009Peter and Florence Sherwin have won a court battle to have their ex son-in-law repay more than $1 million given in four instalments between 1999 and 2002. Plus interest. 26 year old Craig Commens and the Sherwin’s 19 year old daughter Maria (nicknamed Rusty) left Walhallow station together in 1986 when Dalby-born Craig worked for […]