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Photo  -  Whitsundays a honeymoon delight We had someone from New Zealand visiting and it was the first time they had seen ‘Say Yes to the Dress’  -  like my wife she became an avid viewer of ‘Say Yes to the Dress’ – in their view every girl’s dreams is wearing the wedding dress. Is there a social conspiracy with all this. A recent Huffington Post article on Australian marriage statistics gave rise to me pondering whether marriage is in many cases, conspiratorial. Australians have generally seen marriage as a wonderful exciting celebration of a man and a woman where family g...

Photo - Empty tomb ANZAC tourism in Israel has always been massive. My wife Delma and I have led two Israel (Holy Land) tours with InnerFaith Travel. Each year I write an article on tourism to the Holy Land and this year is of particular interest with ANZAC Israel on the agenda. By leading Holy Land tours to Israel therefore I feel I have a close association with this type of tourism. There are innumerable ANZAC sites in Israel and many of these are associated with the Light Horse. The securing Jerusalem in 1917 into Allied hands is another. Israel drama

Photo  -  Wild Animals, Midge Point – the Postie will get through How is this for a story  -  40 years late. A recent News.com article told the story of how the Viewbank Tennis Club were astonished to find a box delivered by Australia Post of sew-on patches, believed to have been ordered in the mid-1970s. The reason given by Australia Post: "The box apparently fell behind some machinery at an Australia Post sorting centre, only to be discovered decades later as staff prepared to move." All those people who have been told 'their cheque' is in the mail and never get it - might now know ...

Jobs disappear, different jobs are created – how safe are these jobs. The Sydney Morning Herald recently ran this story. It lists a wide variety of occupations that are under threat and a host that are relativity secure. The article cites Professor Roy Green, Dean of the University of Technology Sydney business school, who says many Australian jobs are being off-shored, automated and devalued by low-cost competition. "We are going to see some very big changes," Green says. "Obviously, as jobs get destroyed, others get created." We have all seen this process in place for some years and it i...

Photo  -  NZ Invercarhil – perhaps the Minister’s van  Penalty rates as a massive issue having gone through Covid 19 – Ministers have a heavy duty on Sundays. A recent article in The Conversation discussed the claim that restaurants were closing on Sundays due to the huge 200% mark-up of penalty rates in employing people. The claim was made on Q&A 5 years ago by then Assistant Treasurer Josh Frydenberg (now the treasurer). This was the quote: "Now, what the Productivity Commission has said is when it comes to Sunday penalty rates, they are being prohibitive, about at 200% sometimes...