Celebrating our special day as a nation as only some idiots know how.....
Terrified customers hide in small cafe as drunken youths run amok........ Some of my friends like to jibe at my anti-Australian attitude on Australia Day as I am always on about our special day needing to be the 1 st January each year, but seriously I tried really hard to embrace this special day last Sunday, and it was working, until.... It was 2.30pm and my wife Katherine and I went to a small cafe in John Street, Cottesloe. The cafe is in a quiet street that leads down to the main Cottesloe Beach, about 700 meters away. We ha…
Come-on Aussie, belong, belong; come-on Aussie belong!
It’s only a couple of sleeps to go and once again we will get to celebrate what it is to be a ‘true Aussie’. The 26 th January; a time for barbeques, a few beers and sharing stories of what it is that actually stirs the emotions about being truly ‘Australian’. I recall a few years ago whilst departing from Germany’s Frankfurt Airport, as we walked to our boarding gate, suddenly there outside, we saw it. Yep, that is what stirred our emotions about being an Aussie more than anything, and what gave us that ‘lump-in-the-throat’ and maybe e…
Abbott's tough 'boats' policy will also help Indonesia..but at what cost?
" If Abbott’s tough stance on boat people works...and asylum seekers do stop coming to Australia...not only will Australia benefit...but the policy will also help Indonesia." P rime Minister Tony Abbott’s pre-election promise to ‘turn-back-the boats’ appears to be working. In the past month the number of arrivals at Christmas Island has virtually stopped. During this time, it has now been revealed, some five boats carrying asylum seekers have been either turned around or towed back into Indonesian waters. This action has …
Extended holiday doesn't bode well for Indonesia-Australia relations
The Prime Minister has arrived back in Australia after holidaying with his family in the French Alps over Christmas. Meanwhile Indonesia’s ambassador to Australia, Nadjib Riphat Kesoema, continues his ‘holiday’ in Indonesia as a result of being recalled by his government over Australia’s response to the spying revelations late last year. This ‘ambassadorial holiday’ is now in its seventh week; a worrying sign that the bi-lateral relationship is becoming more ambivalent as the weeks roll by as both countries focus on domestic issues domi…
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