The Cost of Living in Australia: House Prices Revised

March 12, 2010

I have always stated on this blog that Australia’s houses are cheaper than those in the UK. But as property values fall back in Britain and the pound versus the Australian dollar tumbles, I am forced to relook look at the figures. If you want to check out my original post, you can read it [...]

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Fairies and Pirates Overrun Western Brisbane!

March 10, 2010
party

Well, despite the continued rain there was one event last week that we couldn’t cancel or postpone. Come rain or shine it was going to go ahead, and go ahead it did. This also answers the question of what I did at the weekend.
It was party time!
Not big tall people drinking too much kind of [...]

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Global Warming? More Like Global Wetting!

March 8, 2010
soaked

As they say, “When it rains, it pours”.
I have no intention of turning this blog into The Weather Channel, (as I said last winter) but over this last week or so the talk here has been all about the weather. I’ve already mentioned the towns that have been flooded in south-west Queensland, but following events [...]

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The Most Dangerous Animal in Australia is…..

March 5, 2010
roos

Australia hasn’t been a barrel of laughs lately. There have been bush fires in Western Australia, a tornado in north Queensland, severe flooding in southwest Queensland with around 500 homes (and rising) affected and, of course, that almost but not tsunami.
So I thought I’d end the week WITH a barrel of laughs, courtesy of Ross [...]

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Australian Education Standards Compared to the UK and USA.

March 3, 2010
teacher

I think it started when I got an email from Vivienne, a lady who has moved from Australia to the UK. She felt quite strongly that educational standards in the UK were better than here in Australia.
I promised to look into it.
Then, in a post I wrote about the cost of education in Australia, Waleed [...]

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Don’t Wait Until It’s Too Late….

March 1, 2010
beach

I have mentioned previously in a post about junk mail,  that leaflets, free local newspapers and free magazines along with gazillions of free shopping store catalogues regularly find their way into the BobinOz letterbox. I seriously have no idea where we get all the trees from, although, thankfully, most of this stuff is printed on [...]

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Possums and Opossums: Australia and America. All Explained.

February 26, 2010
possum

I had an email from a reader called Dottianne the other day, and she has rightly pointed out that the pictures of the possums over at my post called Strange Australian Back Garden Beastie Sound Explained are not, how can I break this to you, possums.
They are both “opossums”. Click the link above, check them [...]

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Australian Good Things: Outdoorfests!

February 24, 2010
Tropfest

How to watch 16 innovative and exciting new films in less time than it takes to watch Waterworld, or…..
What did I do last Sunday?
Last year I watched it on television. This year I decided to go. I had a choice of venues; Sydney – 926 km, Melbourne – 1,691 km, Canberra, 1,204 km, Hobart, 2,393 [...]

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