Coincidence, plays its part in everyone’s life – to a lesser or greater extent – and the back-story to the heading of The Writer’s latest (annual) Wattle Day newsletter should be testament enough to the opening assertion.

Given that since the beginning of the Corona Virus [Covid-19] pandemic I have been utilising the sign-offs to my e-mails and text messages: “Stay Safe”; “Stay Sane”; “Stay Smart”; “Stay the Course”; “Stay Strong”; “Stay Ahead”; “Stay Alert” and “Stay Calm & Carry On”...

Call of the Wattle Wattle Day Luncheon talk by PETER CONSANDINE on Thursday, 1st September 2011 at Parramatta. PETER, who is the National Executive Director and Founder of The Republican Party of Australia...

Would anyone disagree with that Statement? I mean one has gotta have purpose in life and, in my case, someone has gotta do what I do [see later Report]...

You’ve heard the term “It goes with the territory”? Of course you have. Well, an incident in South Melbourne on the night of Sunday, 27 May last might well be a case of...

Little did I know that when I convened a meeting of five of my (then) closest political allies on Sunday morning, 10 January 1982 that I was bringing a ‘child’ in to this...

To my mind, the 2-letter word ‘UP’ deserves to always be spelt in capitals because it is so emphatic a word; so deliberative. Think of the use of the word in sayings e.g. UP and Coming...