Australia & Pacific Political & Social Issues

Casual encounter with the 24. Prime Minister of Australia and Nanda people representative. Two main questions stayed unanswered: 'Australia's first settlers, who were they?' Australia's future inhabitants who they will be?'

The beauty and spirit, and culture of Indigenous people need to be protected. They provide invaluable contributions to the planet.

More than any other nation in the world, Australia has always had a rich and extensive history with drug use and smuggling. Australia's drug policies have been updated to address the growing problem.

Amid new tattoo laws and the creation of a National Data Base of tattooed Australians, the Government says you are a criminal and propagates society to believe you are dysfunctional. What is true?

Members, Associates and Family Members are being forced out of their livelihood, employment due to outrageous claims that 'Positions of Trust' leads to "...advantage". Advantage of what exactly?

The hoofed animals in Australia,such as horses, donkeys and deer, that have been introduced are particularly destructive because their hooves destroy precious top soil.

Reasons Why People Ignore Others (Acceptable/Unacceptable) Why do people ignore other people? It is a very uncomfortable situation when people ignore you. The person who gets ignored, often, feels like that it is deliberate and other people are...

Steve Irwin dead!... Crikey, It was like losing your best Mate !

In the 1920s, American-style gangsters, the most notorious being 'Squizzy' Taylor, controlled crime in the Australian cities of Melbourne and Sydney, offering every kind of service, from gambling and prostitution to sly-grog and blackmail - even murder.

The study of the Human Genome and of human migration for the last, possibly, 200,000 years examines far more than the steps and routes early peoples took. A wealth of information and growing controversy are inherent in the research, all of it fascinating. "All my relations" is truer than we thought...

Spirit Ancestors. Extraterrestrials? My favorite scene from the 1983 film of the US Space Program, The Right Stuff, is the scene in which John Glenn orbits the Earth over Australia while Aboriginals contemplate the Dreamtime.