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Who Would Have Thought?
A few weeks ago I predicted a marginal win for Julia Gillard. While I was counting on the major parties tearing each other apart during the election, hardly anyone saw the Rudd camp throwing missiles into the ALP tent with damaging leaks against Gillard half way through the campaign. So Tony Abbott, on present numbers, [...]
Exit Row Ecstacy
I was in Sydney last weekend ministering at a youth conference. I booked return flights on 2 different airlines. Both flights, save for this bit of trivia, were, for differing reasons, abject disasters. Endless waits for baggage drops, security checks, flights and then baggage collection. Then, after finally arriving in my old stomping ground, when [...]
Two for the Price of One
I am not sure if Labour is trying to give ‘added value’ for your vote, but we have the spectacle of Kevin Rudd being included on the front line of Labour’s campaign push for re-election. As one journalist has noted: In six weeks, Labor has dumped Kevin 07 as leader because he was unpopular, installed [...]
35 off for 35 on
When I set out to lose weight 10 months ago, my dream was to lose 35kgs. I also turned 35 this year so why not lose a kilo for every year I have been on the earth? I didn’t expect to lose 3.5kgs so 35kgs was really in the ‘never never’ land. As of the [...]
Dead, buried and cremated…till the next election
The ghost of Work Choices still haunts Tony Abbott and his bid to enter the Lodge. While he has tried to distance himself from the previous industrial reforms that were a vote loser for John Howard, this issue will not go away. What was Abbott thinking when he pulled the ‘written promise’ stunt during a [...]
Election 2010
About this time last year, the next federal election was going to be fought between Rudd v Turnbull It then quickly changed to Rudd v Abbott Labour has now changed its jockey and it will now be Gillard v Abbott Both parties have now seemed to settle on their leaders. The election will be won [...]
I Will Not Forget Thee O Perth
By the time this blog is posted, Lord willing, we would have arrived home. Perth has been our arena of ministry these last couple of weeks, not to mention the place where we rediscovered winter. It has been interesting seeing our little boy Michael adjust to different surroundings. When he was just 10 days old [...]
Cold but heart warming Perth
Our family have been in Perth for the last 10 days or so. We are here another week. When we arrived the overnight temperature dropped close to zero. Coming from warm Cairns we had the shock of our lives. It is the first time I have seen Michael’s lips turn blue. We are in Perth for [...]
Honour Restored in Defeat
Only a couple of weeks ago I blogged about the slide of then Prime Minister Kevin Rudd. It seems that the only group of people with less patience for Rudd than the electorate was his own party. It still amazes me how quickly an elected Prime Minister was so quickly discarded in the space of [...]
The Mesmerising Lionel Messi
I had not heard of soccer player Lionel Messi until a couple of weeks ago. Messi is considered the natural successor to Diego Maradona, and if you have ever seen him play, you will know why. Take a look at this YouTube comparison of both Maradona and Messi to show why he is so highly [...]
Rudd slide
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd is doing it tough at the moment. Much has been said about Rudd’s retreat from his proposed Emissions Trading Scheme and his dismantling of the national insulation roll out. I remember the first 12 months of Rudd’s term of office. It seemed whatever he said or declared, the national press cried [...]
Entertaining soldiers unawares
We had a special blessing yesterday. Two young American soldiers visited our church. They were on leave from many months serving in Iraq. They left the hell of the deserts of ancient Babylon to find some relief in Cairns. They found our church on the web and wanted to come. They had not been able [...]
