Month: March 2013

MAJOR Ting Li has created a disturbance. Well, that is at least according to three of five Federal Court judges. Continue reading “Disturbance in the ranks”

DEPUTY ACT Chief Minister Andrew Barr has asked rhetorically, “Is it really necessary for the government to maintain a register of real estate agents?” Well yes, and I’ll tell you why it is, Mr Barr. It is because ACT real estate agents handle an enormous amount of the public’s money in the form of deposits on houses pending settlement. Continue reading “Watch estate agents, for charity’s sake”

(This article did not make it to the web sitr when it was published in The Canberra Times last January)

I HAVE just finished reading Our Father, my sister’s wonderful biography of our father, Robert Edward Davison Hull, who was, among other things Anglican Rector of Beechworth, Victoria, from 1959 to 1977 — our formative years. Continue reading “Genealogy becomes an internet industry”

UNTIL the late 19th century, pharmacists made up their own medicines – in powders with pestle and mortar and with liquids. Then an invention to compress graphite to make better pencils was applied to medicines and little pills resulted. Pharmacists called them tabloids. Continue reading “Read all about it — going tabloid”

ARE the fat cats lining themselves up a final plate of cream before the Abbott axe falls in September? A look at the most recent ABS average weekly earnings figures suggests so. Continue reading “As you spend so shall you reap”