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Crystal Ball Predictions for 2021 In a column that should come with a warning “dangerous content” label, it is that time of the year when I gaze into my Crystal…

It Has Been a Year to Remember As I sit to write my last column for the year, I reflect on the past 12 months. It really has been quite…

Some Things are Getting Back to Normal Last week I attended my first “public” event since way back in March of this year. Like you, I have been avoiding large…

Never Been a More Important Time for Our Social Services If anyone out there is coming to the end of their schooling or maybe looking for a career change (forced…

Person A, Person B & ICAC Imagine for a moment a story about two people that we will call Person A and Person B. Let’s imagine that these two people work together…

Daylight Savings Mayhem As we head into the warmer months and the festive season, there will be some that are looking forward to daylight savings and those that are nervous…

Winter Sport Wind Down As the tens of thousands of volunteers at our winter sports start to pull down the shutters of the canteen, wash and pack away the jumpers…

The Most Covid-19 Safe Community in Our Area For this one, I would like you to put your thinking caps on. Here’s the question: we have one postcode in our…

Who Out There Got a Whitlam Education? They say the music of The Beatles changed music for the decades that came after. I suspect that right here in Australia the…

Workers Compensation Scheme Is Being Rorted by the Rulers Having a workers compensation scheme is absolutely essential to our society. For a person that goes to work, and gets injured,…