Mark's Blog

What connects Adani, Facebook and the Australian election? Money. Vast sums of money that Adani will lose if the huge coal mine in the Carmichael Basin in central Queensland does not go ahead (which would scuttle other, smaller tho still huge, coal...

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...

We all know that exercising can change your mood, make you feel better, and that different exercise does different things. Runners, swimmers, game players, all do different types of activity and have a different psychology also, and usually they...

Never before in history has there been such a demographic as single alone women in their 50s and 60s. This is a new phenomenom and one that Western society has no answers...

I had a few favourite eating places in Bali, where I felt most comfortable and liked the ambience, the staff, the food and the environment which separated them from lots of other...

Formerly editor of the now defunct Here & Nowmagazine in Byron Bay, as well as co-publisher of the also defunct interntionally aclaimed Kindredmagazine, Mark started the Byron Body & Soul Guidein...