Right to privacy vs right to freedom of speech and freedom of the media

The Murdoch press phone hacking scandal in the UK provides ammunition to those who want to call for even more teeth for Australia’s read more

[b]Topics:[/b]
Tradeable Energy Quotas
Petrol prices
Clean Up Australia Day 6 March – Transition The Grove organising venue at Leslie Patrick Park on Dawson Pde.
Tai Kwon read more

Topics:
Christmas festive season
Durban climate change conference outcomes
Summertime – cyclic time
Asbestos
Food buying groups
Maggots and sugar and leg ulcers read more

Currency wars

Australia’s dollar is at $1.08 and shows no sign of dropping. We are one part of a currency war that is going on between the US and China. It stokes commodity prices and threatens read more

Nuclear energy and defence

Greg Sheridan writes about defence in The Australia and usually I find his writing well worth reading and thinking about.

He didn’t impress me this week though when he read more

Starting on Disability

Ideas: Keperra Kings
Mike Baguley interview
Mandy participatein.or for social participation 18-65
SIENA Centracare

Tree planting along the local creek with other locals and local read more

Cave Coffee before 8:30am in the morning and be the first to mention YYY 87.6FM to get a free regular-sized coffee of your choic.

Remember that the Ferny Grove Festival is coming up on 28th April – read more

We’d just had extremely wet weather and it was topical to look at our weather.

What is the Southern Oscillation Index how does it affect our rainfall and how does the September reading of 25 compare read more

Program on mental health:

Week 1:

Interviews:
Interview with John from Group 61
Interview with local pharmacist
Interview with trainer from Sweat Depot

Week 2:

Interviews:
Interview with local police
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[b]News of the week – translated to local relevance[/b]
[ul]It only made it to page 19 of The Weekend Australian but the biggest news item of the week was definitely the US President Obama’s read more