Tag: queensland
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November 26, 2009 12:40 AM EST --
THE Queensland Government has started the ball rolling on the first public asset to be sold under its $15 billion privatisation plan.
Treasurer Andrew Fraser told parliament today the formal sale . . .
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September 15, 2009 08:10 AM EDT --
Imagine living in a tropical Paradise for a week...that's what it was like staying with Carolyn in Redcliffe, a small suburb of Brisbane on Moreton Bay. I loved the old Colonial homes with big porches . . .
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April 02, 2009 11:10 PM EDT --
One of the absolute delights of my visit to Australia was a quick hop up to Queensland to meet Gather's notorious Carolyn Madden. For a week now I've been wanting to get an essay up about the . . .
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September 13, 2009 09:03 AM EDT --
Carolyn and I took a ride down to Surfers Paradise on the Gold Coast to see the high surf that makes this place a destiny for many young people (including my second cousin Heidi Lowe). I couldn't . . .
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September 11, 2009 02:22 AM EDT --
On our way to Australia Zoo on Monday I saw some rather imposing mountains. Asking Carolyn about them, she had said they were the Glass House Mountains National Park. At a rest stop on the . . .
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November 15, 2009 06:22 PM EST --
Below is a quick poll result by the Brisbane Courier Mail news paper Poll Results
Thanks for voting, here are the results so far:
Who would you vote for at the next state election?
Labor under . . .
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November 20, 2009 05:44 AM EST --
Queensland Water.
Background:
Over the last few years, the Queensland Government arm called Queensland Water has seen more managing directors than years . . .
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November 26, 2007 06:51 AM EST --
The sun rises over the Pacific Ocean. The prettyness somewhat ameliorates the cruel fact that it's 4.30 in the morning and I'm awake. It's also rather convenient . . .
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March 12, 2008 08:00 AM EDT --
Oh yes. Yes indeed. And you probably had no idea of my importance in the world had you?
Let's see, where were we? I'd left my job as a trainee nurse (while still in the trainee stage) . . .
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April 18, 2006 03:14 AM EDT --
taken on a boiling hot late November afternoon (2000) out on the gibber plain at Marengo.
These poverty shacks at Marengo (dating to the Depression years) took a long time finding. I had begun to think . . .
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April 18, 2006 06:41 AM EDT --
I keep a photocopy of this long forgotten newspaper article in a nearby file. It is one of those memories I return to every now and again. For some reason this item has always talked very directly to something . . .
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March 09, 2006 04:46 AM EST --
Once in a lifetime!
Imagine you are a researcher on a routine house call and you reach under a bed and pull out a box that has been moldering away for more than eighty years.
To find the private papers . . .
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April 18, 2006 01:46 AM EDT --
In this series I will present four sets of photos and say nothing beyond providing captions
These were taken at the Lady Norman Gold Mill, high up in the spine of the Clarke Ranges north of Mackay, in . . .
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April 18, 2006 09:46 AM EDT --
I have provided a full copy of the text below and a full copy of the original small booklet in the images
This document provides a wonderful insight into the nature of the market and the concerns of . . .
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April 19, 2006 12:27 AM EDT --
I am enthusiastic about history and hope to enthuse others. I find sights like this stamper mill on the Little Wanderer mine at Mt Britten to be intriguing. But while I am anxious to advertise the presence . . .
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March 13, 2006 04:05 AM EST --
John Henry Mills loved a portrait.
He took photo's of proud home owners, upstanding businessmen, wild aboriginals, friends, aquaintances, and strangers.
He also sold miniature photographic portraits . . .
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March 15, 2006 12:21 AM EST --
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I thought this article might interest the community at Gather.
It was written in response to several disparaging comments made about Australia by . . .
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August 28, 2009 02:05 AM EDT --
4 Critical Ways To Generate Traffic To A Newly Created Website
Now you have your new website and you are keen to start making some sales! But, how can you make sales if you do not have high . . .
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March 11, 2006 12:21 AM EST --
These two topics - transport and destinations - just go together.
After all - every human wants to be a tourist.
And we all gotta get there somehow.
So let's board a transport of delight . . .
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March 10, 2006 06:20 AM EST --
In town,
in the bush,
they all want to show off their home!
Be it ever so humble - there is no place like home.
These photos were taken three generations ago but look so familiar.
We are so alike . . .
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