Danger – Time Portal Opens in Australia and Drags Populace Back into the Past

Do you remember playing the ‘if you could go back in time what would you change‘ game?  Well here in the land of Oz it’s no longer a hypothetical what if scenario.  The current government is hell-bent on rewriting history, gutting future development and isolating us from the rest of the civilized world. They’re busily …

Times They Are A’Changin’ – Thoughtful on Thursday

Much of what I have been witnessing in Australia over the past months, well years actually, has left me shaken and concerned for what the future of this country holds.  However it appears that regardless of the efforts of the current government and previous political leaders there is also a great deal of good in …

Oz Update

Well as I said in a previous post things have gotten somewhat interesting here in the land of Oz and not in a good way.  For a country that is supposed to pride itself about providing a ‘fair go’ for everyone we seem to be failing rather badly on a variety of fronts.  I don’t …

Good News – Bad News

All the petitions, all the protest and all the money we raised to send experts to speak with the World Heritage Committee has paid off.  Abbott’s attempt to de-list part of the old growth forest in Tasmania has been blocked by the World Heritage Committee and there is a great deal of relief mingled with …

She’s Alive…Beautiful…Finite and Hurting – Thursday’s Thought for the Day

  Thank you to Tashi Witekauha for sharing Sanctuary Asia’s Clip with us – this world is a gift, a precious gift not an unlimited convenience store that can be restocked when it’s shelves are emptied.  We live because of it and to destroy its’ resources for greed and profit is to destroy ourselves. This world and all on it is …

Climate Change – Comedy Weighs in Again

I just want to thank Nikki Harvey at Animal Love for this wonderful clip that just fits so nicely into the little theme I’ve had going here regarding climate change.  I think it is a fitting, funny and final comedic comment on the Climate Change debate for this weekend.    

Climate Change Conspiracy or Cover-up and Does it Really Matter

Following my last post I would like to point out that it was put up there as part of this weekends funny collection.  It doesn’t negate the principal of the issue but it was not meant to be taken as pure fact.  That being said I would like to say in my personal opinion it …

Climate Change Conspiracy or Cover-up?

I would like to thank IFLScience for this wonderful little graphic that depicts in very simple terms how we should be assessing the evidence in the scientific community regarding climate change and just maybe why there are discrepancies in the scientific community. It is still part of this weekends funny challenge as it is quite …

The Purple Plankton Eater – Australian Wildlife Just Keeps Getting Stranger

  Well folks let hear it again for another new addition to the weird, the wacky and the wonderful wildlife that inhabits the continent of Australia and it’s surrounding oceans.  It appears we have another previously undiscovered species to grace our shores. Early Wednesday morning a purple jellyfish [and yes I said purple] washed up onto …

Australia Does Have a Cuter Side

This picture – courtesy of The Australian Conservation Foundation – is for my friend from yeseventhistoowillpass who has a soft spot for the Aussie Koala.  After giving him a rather bad shock with the previous post of a sheep wrangling snake from a property in North West Queensland I promised him a picture of one …