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Old Brisbane Album | Gateway Bridge and Queensland corruption | Facebook

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

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 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

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 it

"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

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

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

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

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

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