Old Brisbane Album | Gateway Bridge and Queensland corruption | Facebook A fascinating post and comments from April 12, 2022, in a Facebook group called Old Brisbane Album. The item is a magazine ad highlighting the opening of the Gateway...
Posted by Michael Bates on June 10, 2022 5:29 PM
Ash Salisbury -- My Aussie Journal A US-based Australian citizen, Ash Salisbury was unable to return home for over a year to see her parents and her boyfriend because of the two-week hotel quarantine period imposed by Australia. A window...
Posted by Michael Bates on August 17, 2021 3:49 PM
Australian politics explainer: Gough Whitlam's dismissal as prime minister Australian constitutional law professor Anne Twomey explains the 1975 events that many characterize as a constitutional crisis and which the Australian Left has seen as a conspiracy by Queen Elizabeth and/or...
Posted by Michael Bates on July 15, 2020 2:01 PM
New South Wales Rural Fire Service: Fires Near Me This is an interactive map showing the extent of the burned area and the status of fires in New South Wales and neighboring parts of Victoria and Queensland. Here is the...
Posted by Michael Bates on January 3, 2020 12:24 PM
"Australian polling is broken: here's how to fix itThe last 50 or 60 Newspolls showed Labor comfortably ahead. What if, in reality, Labor was at best level pegging or even behind? How has this affected our political commentary and...
Posted by Michael Bates on May 23, 2019 1:45 AM
Labor party campaign trailer gets stuck trying to drive under low suspending bridge | Daily Mail Online "A Labor campaign trailer was forced to an abrupt halt on Monday after it drove straight into the pathway of a low bridge...
Posted by Michael Bates on May 9, 2019 11:55 PM
Folau case puts religious debate in danger, says bishop -- The Australian "'If a rugby player can be sacked by doing nothing more than posting on his social media page what is essentially a summary of the Bible then it's...
Posted by Michael Bates on April 17, 2019 9:14 AM
Sexular Colonialism - Stephen McAlpine Stephen McAlpine on the recent persecution of Christian professional rugby players who are of Pacific Islander heritage. He sees a pattern -- white progressives imposing their morality on brown and black believers, whether Fijian Christians,...
Posted by Michael Bates on April 16, 2019 5:39 PM
Millionaire benefactor pulls support over Lady Cilento name change "It is understood the family provided about $330,000 between 2016 and 2017 to the Starlight Children's Foundation for the room and would continue to support the national foundation, but decline future...
Posted by Michael Bates on January 30, 2019 7:53 AM
Bogans, bashing, rorts and stoushes | Daisy Dumas "[Bogan] sits aside a group of words that I had never come across until I moved here from London two years ago. Words that here, for whatever reason, have been given place...
Posted by Michael Bates on January 10, 2019 9:57 AM
Are We Now In a Post-Post Christian Pagan Australia? - The Gospel Coalition | Australia John McClean writes: "I grew up being told that Western culture was trading on a Christian heritage without appreciating it. That is still true in...
Posted by Michael Bates on March 16, 2018 2:11 PM
The Myth of Aboriginal Exceptionalism - XYZ "The real victims of all this intellectual dishonesty by the leftist elites are the Aboriginal children who are forced to grow up crushed between a Stone Age culture which has died and a...
Posted by Michael Bates on January 20, 2018 9:38 PM
Experts sound alarm as biometric data from driver's licences added to government database - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) This report from Australia illustrates what Real ID is all about. Worries about your ability to get on an airplane was...
Posted by Michael Bates on January 14, 2018 8:38 PM
If love wins, we all lose | The Spectator Australia "I was recently reading C.S. Lewis' classic, The Four Loves. In his introduction, he quotes M. Denis de Rougemont as saying, 'Love ceases to be a demon only when he...
Posted by Michael Bates on November 7, 2017 1:48 AM
Miranda Devine: Same-sex marriage debate ending with Christians vilified | Daily Telegraph What does it take to get an event kicked out of a pub's beer garden? Speaking about the necessity of grace when vilified. "The event which so antagonised...
Posted by Michael Bates on November 7, 2017 1:41 AM
Lands administrative divisions of Queensland - Wikipedia Queensland was divided into 109 counties in the mid-19th century (map), then further divided into 322 counties by 1901 (map). Although no longer (if ever?) used for local government, these old county divisions...
Posted by Michael Bates on November 6, 2017 11:17 PM
Polygamy argument shouldn't be dismissed - and I speak from experience -- Brisbane Times "I can speak on the subject of polygamy with some degree of understanding. My Chinese grandfather had two wives at the same time, although only one...
Posted by Michael Bates on September 15, 2017 1:02 AM
19 Australian Snacks Every American Needs To Try Immediately I tried vegemite on buttered bread, lamington, and meat pies, all of which I enjoyed, but missed out on the rest. Thinking I should have tried TimTams and cheesymite rolls....
Posted by Michael Bates on February 2, 2017 1:55 PM
Effect of Weekend Penalty Wage Rates in Australia On top of a generous minimum wage, the Australian government mandates "penalty wage rates" -- bonus wages for working after 10 p.m. or on weekends or public holidays. The result: Few restaurants...
Posted by Michael Bates on June 22, 2016 11:14 AM
If you use an RSS reader, you can subscribe to a feed of all future entries tagged 'Australia'. [What is this?]