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HECTOR’S DIARY Bali Advertiser, December 11, 2013
His fortnightly diet of worms and other non-religious experiences Our Changing Face New figures that show the rapid growth of domestic investment in Bali’s tourism sector and the skyrocketing numbers of domestic tourists here are very interesting for future-watchers. They show without a shadow of doubt that the characters of Bali’s leading industries – tourism… Continue reading
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Nelson Mandela: ‘N Stem vir al Suid-Afrika*
I didn’t spend very long in South Africa and never lived there. At the time, now more than 40 years ago, I was resident on the other side of the Limpopo River in the then rebel colony of Rhodesia, another ratty faux-jewel in the tatty imperial crown. Neither did I meet Nelson Mandela. When I… Continue reading
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Save the last dance for me
Originally posted on No Place For Sheep: When a performer has reached the age of seventy-nine one can be forgiven for fearing every appearance might be his last, and it was clear at Leonard Cohen’s concert in Brisbane last night that thought has also crossed his mind. Though he is enviably fit (he drops to his… Continue reading
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HECTOR’S DIARY Bali Advertiser, Nov. 13, 2013
His fortnightly diet of worms and other non-religious experiences Skulduggery and Other Local Habits The benefits that accompany living in Bali – or anywhere in Indonesia – far outweigh the demerits of doing so. The culture is inclusive, at least on a superficial level that satisfies most tastes; the people readily return a smile to… Continue reading
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Rough waters and rocky boats, but we’ll get there
This side of the stretch of water over which Australian tourists fly in droves to exotic holiday destinations and considerably smaller numbers of asylum seekers travel in rickety boats in the opposite direction, frequently drowning in the process, it was never clear how the new Abbott government was going to get the Indonesians to stamp… Continue reading
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Asian Nations Angry Over U.S. Embassy Spy Reports
China and Southeast Asian governments would never dream of collecting information for intelligence assessment, of course… Continue reading
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Stranded in the shit field
Originally posted on No Place For Sheep: Shit Field, by poo on you Now and again in a life, one runs into what I like to call a shit field – a series of apparently unconnected events that occur simultaneously, or hard on one another’s heels, all of which share a common theme. It… Continue reading
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HECTOR’S DIARY Bali Advertiser, Oct. 30, 2013
His fortnightly diet of worms and other non-religious experiences Somebody Loves Them Bali Dogs, that is. And the anti-rabies fighter BAWA too, the Bali Animal Welfare Association, which as no one should have missed or failed to remark upon, has come to grief on the treacherous shoals of Bali’s perversely acquisitive and uniquely… Continue reading
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Some Points on the Pension
24 October 2013 Ross Fitzgerald had this piece in the Sydney Daily Telegraph today. It makes a good argument for policy change. I have some views on that too that I’ll blog about later. In the meantime, read on: Government can’t ignore retiring baby-boomers THE year 2011 was the year when people born… Continue reading
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