January 1, 2018

A poem inspired by the thirst of American troops

The following poem was written by Dan Sheahan, an Irish sugarcane-farmer of Ingham, North Queensland, Australia (originally from Newmarket, Ireland). It is a story about a cane-farmer who rode his horse into town on Saturday morning during th...

August 16, 2017

North Korean missiles and those pesky alliances

One would think that given the fact that the U.S. underwrites the NATO Treaty, the U.S. could rely upon member-states of NATO to give unequivocal support to the president in this precarious moment.  The E.U.'s dominant power, Germany, did no...

July 16, 2017

What if they played sports with teams based on where players were born?

Imagine a Major League Baseball or NFL game where a team made up of Floridians played one made up of Texans. Or New Yorkers played against Californians.  Australia hosts just an unusual ongoing sporting competition called the “State of Ori...

July 24, 2016

Media shielding Islam from connection to terror

Note the emphasis on mental illness and the omission of any reference to Islam. The Left is hard at work in the media. It is little wonder that the followers of Islam and the admirers of Muhammad develop mental health problems given that the Koran an...

March 25, 2012

Aussie voters deliver stunning rebuke to socialists

A political earthquake measuring 10.0 plus on the Richter scale rumbled and the accompanying unprecedented political tsunami surged over the entire State decimating the socialists in the State of Queensland as a consequence of the State election held...

October 29, 2011

Australia bids farewell to its Queen

After a 10 day visit, our beloved Monarch, Queen Elizabeth II, Head of the Commonwealth, has departed our shores, probably for the last time as she is aged 85, to return home to Buckingham Palace. Wherever she went and whatever event she attended she...

August 22, 2010

Political Turmoil Down Under

As this is being written Australia sits on a political precipice. The most likely outcome of the Federal election conducted on Saturday is a hung Parliament held hostage by the four Independents, three of whom are conservative (having bailed out...

February 19, 2009

Remembering Australia's Pearl Harbor

Ten weeks after Pearl Harbour at 9.58am on 19th February 1942 the very same Japanese naval attack task force bombed Australia for the first time. In fact it was the very first time that Australia had ever been attacked in its history. More ships were...