So last Friday night I read on the BBC that Kevin 07 has decided to open the recently completed but never used detention centre on Christmas Island. The one that he said he’d shut after coming to power. The one that was built by the previous Howard government for the purpose of housing illegal migrants [...]
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Back in the USSR… well near enough
It’s that time of year again. The Christmas/birthday/new years trifecta. Christmas 2008 will be spent in St Petersburg while my 27th (so depressing) birthday will be spent in Red Square, Moscow. I’m looking forward to buying one of those fur hats that all the Ruskies wear and no-doubt some good vodka. Maybe even some caviar [...]
WWII airman? No just some moss.
Yesterday I posted an article about the discovery of what was thought to be the remains of a downed Airman from World War Two hanging in the trees of Papua New Guinea. Reported on the BBC this morning, the Australian Defence Force team sent to investigate found it to be no more than some moss [...]
WWII airman on Kokoda Track?
Recently a man by the name of John, while trekking the Kokoda Trail, happened upon what he thought to be a body hanging in the trees above. He was taking photos of some flowers in the canopy when he noticed what he thought looked like a human body twisting in the breeze. It is thought [...]
London to Sydney – overland style
In my time here in London I’ve managed to do a fair bit of traveling though not anywhere near enough. There are many must-see places still to do and I’ve always said that when I eventually go home I’ll do it overland. All the way from London to Sydney. Through Europe, the Middle East, central [...]
A mention on the BBC
In Nick Bryant’s follow up article to his previous ‘Australia’s rising role in the world’, my post has been deemed worthy of a mention by the journalist himself. How exciting.
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