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There is always drama when high school is involved. 31 Mar 2013 | 11:28 am

Having an 11 year old girl going on 12 is hard. No, not because she is going through puberty. That parts the easy stuff. Mood swings including active defiance, sadness, stubbornness and superiority ar...

Popularity or policy? 30 Mar 2013 | 07:15 am

In international news Australians are already a laughing stock. The state of our economy is the number one reason for the giggles they are having at our expense. Apparently we are the envy of the worl...

A study of contrasts..... 22 Mar 2013 | 05:12 pm

Taken from websites directly, without editing in any way. This is how the two major parties present themselves. We Believe In the inalienable rights and freedoms of all peoples; and we work towards ...

Who's been paying attention? 20 Mar 2013 | 02:38 pm

Let's talk Labor. Have you heard that they have 'gone off track'? Perhaps you are inclined to think they have 'moved away from their core values' or maybe even that they have become a bit of a disorga...

How to win over a population - without doing anything useful. 3 Mar 2013 | 03:14 pm

The Federal election is still 7 months away and a lot can happen between now and September but perhaps it's a good time to reflect on the past few years and what has gone so terribly wrong for the Gov...

Park for Sale - but at what cost? 19 Feb 2013 | 01:50 pm

Cairns is growing. There is no real argument there. The speed with which it is expanding is fluctuating and is currently quite a bit slower than what was predicted just a few years a go but it is stil...

Cairns.........the hypocritical city. 21 Oct 2012 | 05:37 am

Just a few months ago, Cairns region was presented with an unprecedented opportunity involving over 100 million dollars of State and Federal funding and a ready made plan to build a large precinct nea...

Alan Jones. Are you listening? 2 Oct 2012 | 05:52 pm

Misogynist. Bigot. Racist. Venomous. Inciter. All of these words have been used many times in the past few days to describe Alan Jones. In all forms of media, over and over again. Let's pretend for a...

Abbott the Evangelist. 14 Jul 2012 | 11:34 am

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