Well I went to the Socceroo/Italy game in Lygon Street, Carlton on Monday night. For those of you who dont know………this is the centre of the Italian population in Melbourne.
The vibe was great……………Aussies chanting, Italians chanting……….another great funfilled night of frivolity. I was again surrounded my two of my kids and numbers of their friends. […]

Well that’s the Aussie Socceroo theme song, and you know what? I did jump and scream…………not in a stadium, but at Federation Square, in the centre of Melbourne at 5am in the morning, with 20,000 other mad Melbournians as our team succeeded in moving to the final 16 in the World Cup.
I never thought I’d […]

I heard an interview on the radio in the car last week that was extremely powerful.
It was an interview with a 43 year old man who I knew………..not personally, but as I grew up watching “The Sullivans” on TV, I felt I knew this guy. His name is Richard Morgan and he played Terry Sullivan […]

With the World Cup games happening in the middle of the night here in Australia………..there are lots of ‘bleary eyes” around today!
I, like millions others, sat up till 2am to watch the Socceroos play Brasil this morning. Come 4am, I dragged myself off to bed, disappointed at our loss, but not devastated…………we played well, but […]

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This week I explore depression…………….often referred to as “the black dog” because it’s dark, haunting and always ready to pounce on vulnerable people when they least expect it.
What is depression? What predisposes people to suffer from depression? What causes depression? What are the symptoms and how is it diagnosed?
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I dont know about you guys, but I sat up till 0100 this morning watching a game that makes very little sense to me and feeling sick about the Aussies looking like they were going to loose!
BUT in the last eight minutes Tim Cahill and John Aloise wrote their names into the World Cup record […]

Yesturday we had a public holiday for the Queen’s birthday. As the “bolshie” I am, I still feel frustrated that we have the queen of a counrty thousands of miles away as our head of state…………..in the 21st century!!!
I feel even more frustrated that we honour Aussie achievers on the birthday of the Queen of […]

Lots of talk in my home country re the pro’s and con’s of nuclear energy.
In addition to selling uranium from three mines in Australia, should we be looking at value adding????
Should we be establishing “tips” for spent nuclear waste and being paid by other countries for taking their garbage???
Should we be investing in nuclear power […]