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» 1/12/2020 11:01:45 AM There is a reason behind all these Chinese actions. Their exports are falling and they mus.....
» 16/09/2015 2:34:24 PM Thanks Loudmouth for the information. I grew up on the Darling Downs side of the Bunya Mou.....
» 16/09/2015 8:42:26 AM I was born in 1940 when my family lived in the Tooloom region. My grandfather, born in 187.....
» 16/09/2014 8:36:03 AM I believe that most Australians, who are largely an urban based population in coastal citi.....
» 21/03/2014 9:42:43 AM Hello Brian, You have written about the wealthy Chinese wishing to travel to Australia. Th.....
» 26/07/2012 8:31:51 AM As an example of this in 1950 40% of Australian voters were rural. Now rural voters only a.....
» 13/07/2012 1:04:56 PM Basically I agree with Curmudgeon. I have 8 convict forebears, plus others who came to Aus.....
» 15/02/2012 9:27:28 AM Always good to hear from you. After several visits to China I must acknowledge that it was.....
» 11/11/2011 8:02:02 AM See my living tribute published this morning on http://fayhelwig.com.....
» 11/11/2011 8:00:01 AM My tribute was published this morning on http://fayhelwig.com.....
» 9/09/2011 8:47:29 AM Shadow Minister for Tourism Bob Baldwin said Tourism Research Australia's International vi.....
» 4/07/2011 10:37:31 AM In his book 'Back from the Brink' Peter Andrews explained that the rivers of Australia ran.....
» 28/06/2011 1:12:30 PM My mother 94 year old mother says that the thing with the greatest impact in her lifetime .....
» 16/02/2011 8:09:15 AM What Saul forgets is that banana growers and other primary producers are price takers, not.....
» 18/01/2011 11:02:41 AM I totally agree with the writer. All my 'white' forbears came to Australia before 1850. Ye.....
» 29/11/2010 12:01:07 PM Through out Australian history we have relied on development capital from overseas investo.....
» 26/11/2010 12:06:37 PM I am considering this topic from the point of view of a country girl who had to ride a hor.....
» 28/10/2010 10:26:23 AM I read Peter Andrew's book Back from the Brink last year and then wrote several articles a.....
» 13/08/2010 11:19:31 AM For those readers familiar with the personality and temperament types as defined by Myer/B.....
» 13/08/2010 10:58:37 AM There is another aspect of this big events that is seldom mentioned. That is the impact it.....
» 11/06/2010 11:59:57 AM The statistics used to base this post concerning Australia needing to import food to feed .....
» 10/06/2010 4:47:03 PM This explains better than anything I can say about Australian racism. In 2005 Eberhard and.....
» 9/03/2010 3:59:51 PM For the past 5 summers I have opened my home as a hostel for South Korean backpackers. Alt.....
» 5/03/2010 10:16:45 AM My mother, now aged 93, tells the tale of when as teenager her family lived on a hill abov.....
» 25/02/2010 10:06:38 AM I have to feel strongly about any issue before I make the time to add a comment. Generally.....
» 12/02/2010 9:55:54 AM The USA stepped in to take control of the airport and send in its soldiers. The USA will n.....
» 10/02/2010 11:33:33 AM Another of the big groups coming into Australia in this manner have been Koreans. Firstly,.....
» 3/02/2010 10:58:47 AM I am in total agreement with the writer of this article and also with the comments made by.....
» 4/01/2010 1:43:29 PM Women who read Battlelines will be left in no doubt that it is their patriotic duty to bre.....
» 21/10/2009 11:39:57 AM I live beside the Severn River at Glen Aplin and Severnlea is just up the road to Stanthor.....
» 15/10/2009 1:43:04 PM The adding of folic acid to bread is not new in some states. In an address given in front .....
» 15/10/2009 11:59:56 AM I have always deplored the way some writers criticize other writers, rather than the conte.....
» 13/10/2009 3:32:38 PM I have never denied that racism exists in Australia. I do believe that it also exists in e.....
» 12/10/2009 1:05:42 PM I usually don't reply to comments directed at me, but yes, I am aware that people in my ow.....
» 12/10/2009 10:47:52 AM I don't watch Hey, Hey its Saturday because it is not the type of humour that I enjoy. Non.....
» 7/10/2009 12:35:17 PM I am basically in agreement Mike Pope, but let us remember two things. Every year on the G.....
» 17/09/2009 11:25:16 AM I wish to add to this comment. During the Cultural Revolution, Tibetan youths, following C.....
» 4/09/2009 1:40:03 PM I grew up in the country. I learned to light fires, just as prior to white settlement, the.....
» 2/09/2009 1:15:09 PM The daily experience is that the air and water quality is bad, in some places getting marg.....
» 31/08/2009 12:39:53 PM It appears that the 2 persons who have replied to this article so far are male. I had 5 ch.....
» 26/08/2009 12:24:52 PM As a country girl/woman I spent the first 20 years obedient to my father's requests. I spe.....
» 13/08/2009 12:18:34 PM I'm in agreement with Cheryl. Why, because I am 69 years of age. I have raised 5 children .....
» 21/07/2009 12:33:43 PM One resource overlooked is the thousands of international students currently studying in A.....
» 21/07/2009 12:24:25 PM One way to boost Asian languages is to ensure that every child has access to a high speed .....
» 20/07/2009 11:47:39 AM I agree with the author of this article. But the cultural cringe goes further to include s.....
» 14/07/2009 7:26:09 PM My day began at 5.30am when my 83 year old husband reminded me that I wanted to be gone fr.....
» 9/06/2009 7:42:04 PM When people reply to an article like this perhaps it would be a good idea to say what they.....
» 28/04/2009 6:48:38 PM I live on the Granite Belt of southern Queensland. There is a great story about the Granit.....
» 13/02/2009 1:11:47 PM My mother is already doing as suggested. When at the age of 91 she made the decision to go.....
» 3/09/2008 12:45:10 PM I know that the rural population only makes up seven percent of the voting public, so I wo.....
» 1/09/2008 10:43:21 AM There is nothing special about the banks of the Murray River. Anywhere in the world that c.....
» 14/08/2008 11:55:22 AM Congratulations on raising these issues. Country people have always been aware of media om.....
» 4/08/2008 9:18:34 AM We live in the country and therefore have several rain water storage tanks, adequate for m.....
» 22/07/2008 11:21:41 AM I don't normally reply to comments about my comments, but since it appears that CJMorgan i.....
» 22/07/2008 10:08:54 AM I have forwarded this article to the Hon. Bruce Scott MP who represents my electorate. Thi.....
» 14/07/2008 1:14:26 PM Queensland has it all! There is an area of southern Queensland between Dalby and Roma, cen.....
» 14/07/2008 9:55:20 AM So what can Australia do? Australian farmers can certainly produce more food. If the US, .....
» 4/07/2008 11:24:26 AM Graham wrote, It was to be a site which would open up a place for new voices, which would .....
» 2/07/2008 9:41:23 AM I own a busy B&B on the Granite Belt of southern Queensland, so when I take a holiday, I t.....
» 20/06/2008 3:09:31 PM While I agree with Geoff that productivity increases in agriculture have shown us over the.....
» 20/06/2008 8:16:13 AM I am just picking up on one point made in this excellent article. The writer says: Usually.....
» 19/06/2008 2:07:35 PM The writer says, As Australians, we should be prepared to pay farmers more for food. It is.....
» 17/06/2008 11:38:35 AM Of course it is more complex. But, before we have food for sale, we must have farmers grow.....
» 17/06/2008 9:51:19 AM Every time I read that grain is being sold to produce bio-fuels, not feed the hungry, I wo.....
» 10/06/2008 8:45:37 AM I agree that for too long the need to invest in agriculture has been a low priority issue......
» 6/06/2008 1:01:41 PM I believe that there is no food shortage crisis within Australia as many foods are allowed.....
» 5/05/2008 10:32:58 AM Australians are now complaining about the rising price of food, not that the shelves are e.....
» 21/01/2008 12:29:50 PM Let us as Australians do something of vision - not just the regular health and schooling i.....
» 10/12/2007 9:13:27 AM Fifteen years ago Australians picked the fruit and vegetable crops in this district. Now t.....
» 20/11/2007 11:28:59 AM We need infrastructure. In particular we need the proposed railway from Melbourne to Darwi.....
» 20/11/2007 11:15:32 AM What's new? Ever since Australia was founded as a colony we have exported our raw material.....
» 30/10/2007 10:11:17 AM I agree with you haygirl, but I'm not a wage earner. I am self employed in a small busines.....
» 24/10/2007 12:33:06 PM I believe the eucalytus forests the length of the Great Dividing Range, not only Victoria,.....
» 3/10/2007 11:05:57 AM For most of my life I lived on the land and never once did I receive any Government assist.....
» 7/08/2007 9:44:40 AM It can be said that a rising tide, rises all boats. But, those boats must be in the water......
» 2/08/2007 10:14:32 AM The story is in the Stanthorpe Border Post newspaper this morning that the Stanthorpe Shir.....
» 18/06/2007 1:27:39 PM The author is correct in saying there is tremendous pressure on students to study hard, bu.....
» 18/06/2007 1:15:41 PM I've recently returned from 2 weeks visiting the north-western portion of Yunnan Province .....
» 18/05/2007 7:43:52 AM Thanks Ludwig, I agree with everything you said. But who will compensate the country peopl.....
» 17/05/2007 12:48:51 PM If you owned hectares of useless eucalyptus forest, is it not your right to destroy it to .....
» 17/04/2007 12:05:55 PM Here is a simple story about weeds. A farmer I know removed all his fences surrounding gra.....
» 17/04/2007 9:59:15 AM While I agree totally with this article, I believe it neglects one aspect of weeds. Not on.....
» 23/02/2007 11:32:52 AM Apart from the effects of a long term drought, it has been the growth of cities, particula.....
» 29/01/2007 10:09:09 AM While I agree with the commentsof the writer about the costs of the water in cities, pleas.....
» 25/01/2007 2:15:40 PM I was born in 1940, so experienced many forms of inequality. I saw myself as feminine alth.....
» 25/01/2007 1:46:49 PM I too have 6 convict forebears and a number of free settler forebears, including a great, .....
» 12/01/2007 10:28:44 AM To see a different perspective, I suggest you visit regional areas employing backpackers. .....

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