The Youth For Life group has been demonstrating against the Abortion Law Reform Bill that was passed in August last year, it legalises abortion within 24 weeks and beyond 24 weeks if the person's health is at risk by continuing the pregnancy ( Read more... )

Well, more like a tremor. It is our second one in 2 weeks. Which is kinda odd for us given we are smack in the middle of a giant pacific plate. I can only remember two tremors in my whole life previous to this month.

It is unlikely to be a sign of the beginning of the end, but it can't be good. :P

I saw this movie again on TV today and while the movie wasn't any better the second time around I was thinking during the movie could we really find alien species that were of a monstrous size one day? I started to think about dinosaurs and why they were so big yet everything nowadays is so small by comparison. So I put the power of the internet ( Read more... )

A fisherman near Darwin took some happy snaps today of a Bull Shark taking on a relatively small salt water crocodile, by relatively small I mean a 4.5m croc, err, i guess about 15 feet. Male salties often grow to around 7m and the largest one recorded in Australia was 8.5m, something like 28 feet. Most salties will dwarf even great white sharks ( Read more... )

How cute are these new snow leopard cubs at the Zoo here in Melbourne. Going to have to check them out.


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We had some really horrific bushfires here last week, 181 dead so far, several rural communities wiped out, most had very little to no warning. I remember when I lived in the country I helped out backburning during the winter and remember just how intense the heat was, it was unbelievable, like a furnace and those were controlled burn-offs ( Read more... )

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In an interesting move to help stimulate the economy, our government is giving $1000 per child to parents and $1400 to each pensioner ($2100 for a couple) before Christmas with an encouragement that money is to be spent and not saved ( Read more... )

Tom, my cat goes under the knife tonight, losing the family jewels.

Poor little Tommy, the sad face he gave me when I left him with the vet made me sad. :(

Oh well, at least he will stop beating up the neighbours cats who are getting between him and some hot action.

I remember doing a job for the our government here in Australia a few years ago, part of it involved reviewing the regulation laws we have with our banking and financial sector, considered draconian by world standards, we have very tight regulations on our financial institutions ( Read more... )