Category Archives: Australia
Bert and Patti Newton: the agony of a child with mental illness.
The famous ebullient smile that Australians know so well was not there on the face of the man we have known and loved for almost 60 years, and it was sadly absent from that of his wife as well. Bert and Patti Newton have been part of our living room furniture for almost as long [...]
Australian troops in Afghanistan: have the debate and then pull them out.
In a sight that is sadly becoming increasingly common the bodies of two more Diggers arrived back on Australian soil last week. Both young men, both married, both daddies and one expecting his second child in a matter of just weeks. Two more widows, several more children left fatherless, another generation of Australian children growing [...]
My son the tycoon…
My son changes his mind about his ambitions more times than he has hot dinners – and he has sure had a lot of those. It does not help either that he is living currently in a region north of Sydney where unemployment is quite high – for local Australians that is – if you [...]
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