Right from the outset I am going to acknowledge the South African-born author – Bryce Courtenay – as the inspiration for the latest heading in my annual Wattle Day newsletter series. I met this famous writer once at a Gordon 2072 Library gathering at the time of a newly-published book (one of many).
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”...
In the grim ISO times which obtain there are still compelling reasons why the matter of an Australian Republic needs to be addressed. This year of 2020 our monarch turned 94 years of age and is, inevitably, that much closer to either death OR abdication, as the case may be.
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...
Honour Roll of Wattle Day Luncheon GUEST SPEAKERS David Borger, (then) Lord Mayor of Parramatta Geoff Coulin, Designer of the Wattle Day flag and Wattle Historian Stuart Littlemore...
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...
