James Herriot Ethos All things bright and beautiful,All creatures great and small,All things wise and wonderful:The Lord God made them all. James Alfred Wight, better known by his pen name James Herriot, was a British veterinary surgeon and author. Born in Sunderland, Wight graduated from Glasgow Veterinary College in 1939, returning to England to becomeContinue reading “All Creatures Great and Small”
Author Archives: Nelle
The Scribblybarkpoet
odroSnepts5r4638mtf1l1iAame8p3503ag 6 6 g:Se13eimi7115Mth00b · THEY ARE PART OF OUR HISTORY … Maureen Clifford © The #ScribblyBarkPoet They were part of the history that shaped this old land, a part of a vanishing breed, strong, young Aussie blokes, handsome and brave, and their brumby bred tough mountain steeds;. they answered the call when the call to arms came,Continue reading “The Scribblybarkpoet”
iPhone’s ‘Clean Energy Charging’: the beginning of dystopia
Flat White Getty Images Flat White 28 February 2023 5:00 AM iPhone users raged on social media after they discovered why their devices have been a bit sluggish on the charging front… ‘Clean Energy Charging’ is a new feature introduced to iOS version 16.1 by Apple to ‘reduce the carbon footprint’ of their iPhone. Like allContinue reading “iPhone’s ‘Clean Energy Charging’: the beginning of dystopia”
Aborigines
The Incidence of Cannibalism in Aboriginal Society William D. Rubinstein “Cannibalism is practised by all natives on the north coast with whom I have come in contact, with the exception of a very small tribe inhabiting the immediate neighbourhood of Port Essington … The eating of grown-up people—that is, of natives—is, as far as IContinue reading “Aborigines”
The Voice
In Defence of the Narrative, Facebook Stands Ready David Barton A Melbourne businessman, Phillip Mobbs, who is opposed to the Voice, decided to launch his own Facebook and web pages, which he called Constitutional Equality. Mr Mobbs was spending substantial amounts, up to $2,000 a week, “boosting” his Facebook posts to attract as many eyesContinue reading “The Voice”
Language
The Case for Latin David Daintree Climate change is one thing, but how about a new Renaissance? Is Latin merely an irrelevancy, a pitiful remnant of a once-great civilisation still holding a few of us back from our proper preoccupation with the future? Or is it just lying low, temporarily out of fashion, waiting forContinue reading “Language”
The Voice
In Praise of Division and Hard-Ball Politics Peter Smith Frequent contributor Marcia Langton is a gift that keeps on giving for the ‘No’ case, even when she claims to have been misreported. She is hardly alone among Aboriginal ‘Yes’ advocates. However, if you really want a gift that keeps on giving, watch Chris Kenny wranglingContinue reading “The Voice”
Doomed Planet
Koalas, Too Cute for Their Own Good? Vic Jurskis The second-last nail in the coffin for native forestry in New South Wales will be the Great Koala National Park. But New South Wales’ native timber industry has contributed to its own demise by trying to use spin instead of science. The Timber Biz’s (TB) website’sContinue reading “Doomed Planet”
Fabricated Narratives About the Environmental Doomsday
Fake Climate Narrative September 20, 2023Algora BlogLeave a comment Spread the Word Authored by Jim Quinn via The Burning Platform blog, Anyone capable of critical thought knows this entire globull warming/ climate crisis/ health emergency narrative is false, contrived by the ruling elite/globalist cabal billionaire class as a further means to gain control, increase theirContinue reading “Fabricated Narratives About the Environmental Doomsday”
Barnaby joins Australian MPs lobbying US to end Assange pursuit
Politics Federal MPs from across the Australian political spectrum have united in Washington DC to call on the US government to end its ongoing pursuit of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.Kat Wong Print article Former Nationals leader Barnaby Joyce, Labor MP Tony Zappia, teal independent Monique Ryan, Liberal senator Alex Antic and two Greens senators PeterContinue reading “Barnaby joins Australian MPs lobbying US to end Assange pursuit”
Working your butt off to pay your own way? This man probably doesn’t like you
Politics First it was landlords. Now it is anyone who lives in inner-Brisbane. Why is it always the voters’ fault when things don’t go the way politicians want, asks Madonna King Madonna King Print article The latest attack on voters is by the Government’s deputy premier Steven Miles, who has labelled those living in innerContinue reading “Working your butt off to pay your own way? This man probably doesn’t like you”
Wokeism complicates the raising of kids
Nick Hossack Flat White Getty Images Nick Hossack 20 September 2023 4:30 AM One of the dilemmas raising children in an era when Wokeism dominates every institution is whether to bluntly express your opinions on various topics or, instead, hedge and sanitise so they don’t regurgitate your views in full and, in doing so, renderContinue reading “Wokeism complicates the raising of kids”
Blue Energy’s Galilee dreams dashed by state government
Business Blue Energy’s goal to commercialise a potentially large gas resource in the Galilee Basin has been rejected by the State Government. Print article Blue lodged nine applications for a Potential Commercial Area with the Government in 2018 as a result of gas discoveries which found a contingent resource of 838 petajoules. “Blue believes itContinue reading “Blue Energy’s Galilee dreams dashed by state government”
High life
New York has cancelled Mozart Taki The Mostly Mozart Festival has been cancelled by New York’s Lincoln Center after 60-odd years. [ferrantraite] Taki 16 September 2023 9:00 AM Gstaad This is the best news since the Bush-Blair duo saved us from the nuclear holocaust Saddam was about to unleash upon us. Half a million, perhapsContinue reading “High life”
Blue Mountains National Park and Kanangra-Boyd National Park Draft Plan of Management: public consultation
The Blue Mountains National Park and Kanangra-Boyd National Park Draft Plan of Management is on public exhibition until 26 September 2023. Current Time 2:43 / Duration 2:43 Public exhibition of the draft plan provides an important opportunity for community members to have a say in the future management of the Blue Mountains and Kanangra-Boyd national parks. OnceContinue reading “Blue Mountains National Park and Kanangra-Boyd National Park Draft Plan of Management: public consultation”
Right to Climb
Our mountains belong to all of us. The Right to Climb them and bask in their views that inspire awe and wonder is as old as the human genome. This long-established cultural tradition is under threat by a small group of bureaucrats determined to impose their way on the rest of the world. It isContinue reading “Right to Climb”
The Voice
The Misguided Pursuit of Recognition Lucas McLennan Peter Dutton’s promise on 11 August (reiterated on 3 September) to have his own referendum to recognise Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in the Constitution is a grave mistake. Admittedly, the promise may make sense politically as polling shows most Australians support the concept of symbolic constitutionalContinue reading “The Voice”
Voice Special Edition
Locking Us Out of Our National Parks Marc Hendrickx Marc Hendrickx is a geologist who blogs at righttoclimb.blogspot.com. The first part of this article appeared in Quadrant in June 2019. The second part is an edited version of the speech he gave on January 14 this year at a community rally in Murwillumbah devoted toContinue reading “Voice Special Edition”
The Philistine
Snow Sorta-White and her Non-Dwarf Shark-Jumpers Salvatore Babones Disney has jumped the shark, and our entire culture has jumped along with it. The expression “to jump the shark” is an American entertainment idiom used to denote the point of creative bankruptcy that occurs when a successful television or movie series exhausts the potentialities of itsContinue reading “The Philistine”
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