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Australia’s Soaring Electricity Prices

23 June 2010 Cost of Living - Australia
goswitch

Cost Of Living in Australia: Electricity Revisited Every year here in Australia electricity prices rise in every state (except Victoria, I’ll come to that later) by a percentage which is agreed by the Independent Pricing and Regulatory Tribunal (IPART). Here in Queensland, the agreed percentage increase for the year 2010/11 was 13.29%; it struck me [...]

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Wine Glut? How Can There Be A Wine Glut?

14 April 2010 Cost of Living - Australia
wine

Apparently, there’s too much wine. I said to Mrs BobinOz, “Apparently there’s too much wine” and she said “That’s ridiculous! How can you have too much wine?” Precisely. So what’s the story? Apparently, we have too many vineyards, have produced way too many grapes, resulting in far too much wine which is outstripping demand. Australia [...]

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Queensland’s Cyclone Season Ending Soon.

15 March 2010 Australian Climate
Cyclone Ului

But is there a sting in the tail? I did say back in January that we were heading into cyclone season here in Australia. It was predicted then that we may have three or four serious tropical cyclones here in Queensland with a significant danger that one or more may cross over to the mainland, [...]

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Australian Tornadoes: The Most Destructive Ever!

22 February 2010 Australian Climate
twister

Last week I did the best I could to explain humidity and I also showed you where humidity goes when it gets a full. I appreciate I may not be using the correct meteorological terms here, but the end result is the same. Stage one: become hot and sweaty. Stage two: buckets of rain. If [...]

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Oh no! “It” Has Happened.

12 October 2009 Australian Climate

“It” has only been mentioned three times in the entire archives of BobinOz. Sami mentioned “it” in her guest post; on that occasion “it” surfaced over at Mooloolaba Beach, but of course I didn’t see it. “It” also gets mentioned twice more, firstly when I talked about the heavy storms we suffered in May earlier [...]

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The Torrential Rain Video by My Ex-Camera

21 August 2009 Australian Climate
bobinoz

If you read my post from about a month ago, when I was attempting to video record the torrential rain we were having here in Brisbane, Queensland, you will know that I had a very bad day. Because that was the day I smashed my £600 camera. I said at the time, that if I [...]

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Pictures of an Australian Winter

13 July 2009 Entertainment Australia
Australian Beaches in Winter

In Friday’s post I informed you that I was not here, I was in Maroochydore. That information was incorrect. A Very Public Apology. This blog makes every effort to be factually correct at all times but on this occasion, it is with great regret that I have to inform you that……. my wife made a [...]

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Queenslands Birthday Party

9 June 2009 Entertainment Australia

You will probably remember from last week’s post that I was spoiled for choice for things to do this weekend, what with Queensland celebrating its’ 150th birthday. After taking a long hard look at all the events that were available, it came down to a straight choice. A battle between the Exhibition Exploring Greek Embroidery [...]

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