After 20 years, it's about how well we live; not just how long we live....
Saturday 28th December 2013 Twenty years ago today, in the middle of a dynamic and demanding career whilst based in Singapore, I received the news that almost everyone, at some time in their lives, truly fears: “I am sorry, but you have cancer.” Sadly, it was a cancer that had already spread, or ‘metastasised’ as they like to say in the medical world. This would mean returning to Perth where the doctors had a better understanding of malignant melanoma and where I would undergo more surgery, chemo and radiotherapy over a four month…
It's time to tell Indonesia to get their act together and support us with our boat people problem!
The Prime Minister, Tony Abbott has publically announced that, “It is high-time a singularly unhelpful Indonesia resumed co-operation with Australia on the asylum seeker issue...and other issues...” What our PM meant of course was, “...and other issues that are of interest to us .”And that of course is why the relationship is now stuck and going nowhere; with the exception that Indonesia’s attitude towards Australia is becoming more ambivalent as the weeks roll by. So I thought I should write a terse letter to the Indonesia President, Susl…
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