downunder update

Another Review today. I’ve been asked about ‘Classic Australian’ books, but what does that mean? I’m never sure, but this one is always described as a classic. In a way. it is. It’s a book I had to study at school, an account of our early European history here, when the English used the country [...]

Australian Monopoly
I had a look at the latest Australian version of Monopoly. Tells you a lot about the real estate values. I’m told that the good folk who live up north on the much-vaunted Sunshine Coast are pretty peed off that their popular tourist spot is seen as the least desirable piece of real estate [...]

Have you heard about Mungo Man? No, I didn’t think so. Palaeontologists get hot under the collar when something upsets their Out-of-Africa theory. But the discovery in the desert of ancient bones can still fit in with the theory of African Genesis.
At Lake Mungo in New South Wales, the shifting sands exposed the skeletal [...]