Why I haven’t cancelled our June Bali holiday
Why I haven’t cancelled our June Bali holiday I had just finished a Skype-video interview with a major TV channel here in Perth, to warn West Australians that it will be ‘many months before we can sit on the beach in Bali again, and watch the sunset’, when my wife, Katherine challenged me: “But you still have not accepted Jetstar’s penalty-free offer to cancel our own Bali holiday planned for June, so what are you talking about?” It was confronting. And I had to confess to Katherine that I simply couldn’t bring myself to actually d…
WHY HARVEY WEINSTEIN WAS SO DUMB...
How stupid was Harvey Weinstein. What an idiot by abusing so many women? Didn't he realise that they were ADULTS, and adults can talk to authorities and eventually get-together and cause trouble? He should have gone after small children. Much easier, and a whole lot safer. Kids don't understand what is happening; they can't articulate as well as adults, and with some luck they will kill themselves anyway before they grow-up and cause t rouble like adult victims do. And as George Pell's lawyers have proven, that bec…
AT LAST SOME TRUE LEADERSHIP FROM AN AUSTRALIAN FOOTBALL CODE
By Ross B. Taylor Richard Goyder, Chairman of the AFL, finally said last night what most 'thinking' people suspected: "The AFL has not even considered the Eddie McGuire plan to have a 'Hub' competition start soon, where six teams would be based in Perth." McGuire's plan was never a good idea anyway, and apart from the logistics of setting-up such a structure, the message to the entire population was one of arrogance and disregard for the 'social distancing' and quarantining rules now in place…
Cancer: Money, dogma, arrogance.. yet new and real hope.
Cancer: Money, dogma, arrogance.. yet new and real hope. ‘You are more likely to get cancer than to get married’, quipped a cancer oncologist some years ago. 1993 was not a good year. In the midst of my international business career that involved extensive time away from our Singapore home and long days in remote parts of nearby Indonesia, I discovered a lump under my left arm whilst showering in my Jakarta hotel bathroom. Three days later upon returning to Singapore where under surgery the lump was re…
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