The film "Lucy" starring Scarlett Johannson and Morgan Freeman opens this week and already, there's two things surrounding the...

V - Andrew Fisher Regular followers of this blog will have noted that I refer to the principle known as Duverger's law time and ag...

The Spa 24 Hour race began at midnight this morning Eastern Standard Time and in one of the AF Corse Ferrari 458 Italias, along with Ital...

During the winter in Sydney as temperatures head southwards and into single digits, the unofficial uniform scarves and to a lesser extent ha...

I concede that this sounds like an idiotic title for a blog post but bear with me, because I kind of think that even reading the Bible in di...

II - Alfred Deakin If Edmund Barton being a reasonable person, couldn't hold together the parliament, suffered poor health and ha...

Tucked away in our garage is a black and white National television set (even from before the days of National Panasonic) and curiously it...

http://www.politico.com/story/2014/07/washington-dc-statehood-president-obama-109186.html#ixzz389kz1fk9 “I think I’ve long believed that D....

I - Edmund Barton Edmund Barton was Australia's First Prime Minister. He almost was not; twice . Barton became a member of parli...

Preface: I find it extraordinary that as an Australian citizen, I can recite clauses from the US Constitution, name more than 30 US Preside...

Beckfords Bank rose 6 cents to $31.52, The Imperial Bank also rose 24 cents to $66.72. The mining sector did well on the back of an announc...

http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/tony-abbott-praises-the-australian-as-rupert-murdochs-gift-to-our-nation-20140716-3bzw...

http://www.smh.com.au/comment/column-8/column-8-20140714-zt6w5.html From our ‘‘Arrggh, In MY Day...’’ Desk (shop assistants who can’t do ev...

Rejoice  in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice! Let your gentleness be evident to all. The Lord is near. Do not be anxious about...

Only 8 nations have ever won the world cup (Uruguay, Italy, Germany, Brazil, England, Argentina, France and Spain). This Germany - Argentina...

Look, I know full well that this is very much going to appear as one of those "first world problems" and to be sure, the fact that...

Brazil 1 - Germany 7 Müller 11', Klose 23', Kroos 24', 26', Khedira 29', Schürrle 69', 79 Oscar 90' Shares ...

Watching the 2014 World Cup in Brazil, I'm amazed at how coordinated all of the graphics appear to be. The signs at the venue match the ...

http://www.politico.com/story/2014/06/supreme-court-unions-108419.html#ixzz3654Z6vY2 Public-sector unions are bracing for a Supreme Court d...