I admit at the outset of writing this year’s offering that I had a number of alternative headings but I settled on the famous phrase of yore because in this Era of Uncertainty for all of us it has a cogent resonance.

On countless occasions since The Writer reached Three Score & Ten – indeed, his Seventys – and especially when they learned that ‘Conso’ had been keeping a day-by-day diary since 1st January, 1964, the general response of the informed was along the lines of “Oh, you must write your memoirs”.

There would be hardly anybody in our nation of Australia who has not been – at least to some extent – affected by the Covid-19 pandemic which kicked in circa early March of 2020. And, as time marches on it is becoming as plain as day that there shall be no returning to what has been nicknamed: “the Old Normal”.

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...