Sep
15
2008
I have a friend who spends at least an hour each day “clicking” for charity. She says it feeds some children, somewhere. Apparently, if you click on a button some percentage of a cent will be forwarded to something, some group, some organisation (some church?) which feeds children.
Now I don’t know about you, but IÂ [...]
Jul
01
2008
The Red, Black and Gold of the Indigenous Australian Flag sprang from passionate times.
It was a symbol of race and identity in the Land Rights struggles of the 1970s, when Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people fought their exclusion from proper education, health care, housing and employment.
For those who know the history of this [...]
Jan
28
2008
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 [...]