Posted by: donallan on: 16 May 2012
Shorty version published The Chronicle, Canberra, Tuesday 16/5/12 While some economists might welcome last week’s budget, battlers will remember it as the horror budget that included the unwelcome carbon tax that will make them poorer and their battles to escape poverty even harder. And no doubt Treasurer Swan will be glad to lay claim to [...]
Posted by: donallan on: 30 December 2011
On New Year’s Day when resolutions are all the go I, like many others, will make some but in the interests of personal safetey will keep them secret. Bear in mind that Hogmanay (to the uninitiated that means New Year’s Day)is the day most celebrated by Scots. Like many of my countrymen I shall do [...]
Posted by: donallan on: 3 November 2011
This article first published The Chronicle, Canberra, Tuesday, 1 November 2011 To ensure we live a long and healthy we’ve got ‘experts’ by the dozen warning that to keep healthy without adding too much to our waistline, we need exercise and a good diet. They also advise what we should and shouldn’t drink, not to [...]
