I even have time for the Labor MP for Kingsford Smith. He and Midnight Oil rocked the SCG.
Someone in the crowd held up a sign saying,
"Garrett for PM"
…perhaps in a decade.
General Peter Cosgrove will not be renewing his contract in July 2005. I have much respect for the man inside the Uniform.
I will miss his wisdom, judgment and compassion.
Not least of all for statements such as this,
“We should not rush off on jingoistic sentiments or warped ideas of mateship and the ANZAC spirit. Those ideas are true. But they are outcomes. They are not motives. So our decisions as a nation to go to war must be the most serious we ever take. Only when the decision is irrevocable and accepted, let then the people perform to the ANZAC spirit which is uniquely Australian and compounds our effect wherever we appear. But let’s not ever use that as the reason to put on khaki.”
…and who will post into the position?
Air force blue should be the next leading colour…
Probably Air Chief Marshal Houston.
Image from here
…and the winner is my bloggalactic hero BARISTA!
This was a most beautiful, quiet and remote wilderness.
Nobody paid their rates to the Litchfield Shire Council, because the locals had the idea that you have to provide something to charge a fee!
I can recall one typical local, usually at the Humpty Doo Hotel saying,
"You don’t even grade the bloody road (note singular), I’m not paying any bloody rates"
These are uncomplicated, hardworking, honest, good people and Allan Brooks is one such character.
Of his wheelbarrow odyssey, Allan was quoted as saying,
"If I fill it to the top with coins, I’d be flat-out trying to push it to be quite honest, so obviously notes would be better,"
On a humid, rain soaked spring night in Sydney Grogblogging 2004 unfurled.
I liked unfurling.
Furled and unfurled near me were:
Pandagate shirts were popular and gorgeous. More than one person suffered from the inevitable blogspot identity confusion…
