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Life is too short to drink bad coffee, is the slogan on the purple Zentfeld umbrellas. The same principle applies to books. Life is short so read good books — there are so many....

Over the course of the 2008 US presidential campaign and the democratic primaries beforehand, I often found myself in tears as I watched Obama’s speeches on the internet or on...

Everyone has heard of the latest documents published by Wikileaks which have embarrassed pretty much every government in the world, especially leaving significant quantities of egg on the face of the US. Just now I saw a TV news bulletin talking...

I just read the report of the ruling by the ACCC in Australia on the Power Balance Bands that have taken the sports world by storm over the past year. (see link at bottom of page) The ACCC has ordered that Power Balance Australia refund all monies...

Can it really be true? Is it really possible that Rupert Murdoch's control over how and what a large proportion of the human race thinks and feels is about to whither? Is there really a light at the end of the...

Not content with the demolition job they did on Pan Pharmaceuticals (see Power Balance bands sham for a description of the TGA's role on Pan's collapse) Australian media continue to undermine, through innuendo and biased reporting, the alternative...

I have just come back from The Dreaming, Australia's international Indigenous festival held over the Queen's birthday weekend in June at the Woodford site in SE...

I was quite determined to go to the inaugural Dreaming festival held over the Queen’s Birthday weekend, 2005, run by the Queensland Folk Federation at the Woodford festival site. I brushed off the heavy rain falling in Mullumbimby over the two...

The 2010 Dreaming Festival was even more fabulous than the previous 3 'Dreamings' I have been privileged to attend. There were so many great moments, with so many other acts, but the thing that has stayed with me the most was a screening of the...

Being prepared for camping is essential if you want to have an easy and enjoyable time with your family during a festival. Over the years we have slowly assembled all the gear that is needed to create a home away from home....