I’m proud to be able to call Australia home. Today is the day to celebrate all the things we love about Australia: land, sense of fair go, lifestyle, democracy, the freedoms we enjoy but particularly our people. Australia Day is about acknowledging and celebrating the contribution that every Australian makes to our contemporary and dynamic…
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Aussie national anthem tweaked
As of the 1st January 2021, the Australian national anthem was changed – one word was substituted for another. Instead of singing: For we are young and free, the words are now: For we are one and free. Not a big difference, but it was done to make our national anthem inclusive, to recognise our…
Aussie lamb ad 2021
Every year the Australian lamb industry drops an ad for Aussies to eat lamb on Australia Day (which is next week). I posted about it last year (and included my favourite from 2016). For your viewing pleasure, here is the 2021 ad, Make lamb, not walls… (A few Aussie explanations first: Aussie state borders have…
Happy New Year
Welcome to 2021. I hope the year brings you good health, joy and laughter. Here’s to a fresh start… onwards and upwards!
Surviving 2020
In 2020 I answered a list of 52 journal questions. Read about it here. Year in reviewWell, we’ve done it. One way or another we’ve battled through the madness that has been 2020 and are about to emerge out the other side. It really has been a year that felt like it was never going…