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So who cried today ?

We sent Miss 12yo off to her first day at Highschool today. The past 7 years have just flown by.As I walked back to my car all I could think about was the same trip back to my car 7 years before...her first day at Kindy...

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SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING - MELBOURNE AREAfor DAMAGING WIND, HEAVY RAINFALL and LARGE HAILSTONES For people in the Inner, South East, Eastern, Northern, Western, Mornington Peninsula, Port Phillip and parts of the Geelong and Bellarine Peninsula, O...

At what age is it okay for a sleep over?

For your son/daughter to allow their partners to spend the night (same bed) in your family home?

Europe’s carbon price crashes to $4.45. Gillard’s still $23

The Gillard Government’s carbon trading plans are in tatters after two developments in Europe overnight, leaving it staring at billions of dollars in Budget deficits. First, the EU carbon trading scheme to which the Government linked Australia from 2...

How can Julian Assange run for the Senate

Julian Assange, according to the SMH, has announced that he will run for a Senate position. Can he do this while still resident in the UK? If he has to return to Australia to do so, how can he leave the foreign embassy he is in? Does anyone know?

Is it just me or is this heartbreaking to read?

It is an excerpt from a book and it is too long to post so have only put the link in. It is a mothers book about the struggle to out her 7 year old daughter on a diet. Dotted throughout the article are comments from the mother about her own dieting a...

Famous people who you think are

prats. Anthony Mundine (so full of himself) Lleyton Hewitt

Yesterday I sewed my finger onto an apron

and today when I took the bandaid off there was a pink thread poking out of my finger so I pulled it and now my finger is bleeding and hurting :^O:^O

The Life of Pi

Has anyone seen the movie? I'm hearing good reports about it and the previews look good. I had read the book but it bored me witless and I couldn't imagine a movie - but am thinking I might go now.

GILLARD and Labor Looting from the prudent to pay for more handouts

Looting from the prudent to pay for more handouts The Government has spent too much. Its promise to return the Budget to surplus is shattered. It can’t find the money for its massive new disability insurance scheme. The Prime Minister’s boyfriend is ...

Tim Mathieson....blunder or not?

http://au.news.yahoo.com/latest/a/-/latest/15975324/pms-partner-jokes-about-prostate-exams/ Prime Minister Julia Gillard's partner, Tim Mathieson, has made a joke about Asian women and prostate examinations during a speech at The Lodge. The remark wa...

How can we have an Australia Day without a flag debate?

We still have a flag that confuses the world - to the world our flag says we are still an English colony. So why oh why is it so hard to get Australians to change the thing? After having had the misfortune of living in the midst of the Cronulla riots...

The smart money on Abbott to win Lodge

A SWAG of federal Labor seats would fall in NSW at the upcoming election, putting Tony Abbott into office with a comfortable margin. That is the conclusion of analysts at gaming firm Sportsbet, which has just released its 2013 election odds - seat-by...

Any AHS (Australian Hospitality Services) housekeeping workers here?

I have worked for this company for seven months, housekeeping at a resort in Surfers Paradise. Not happy with them, considering leaving, big decision though. Just looking for any feedback from anyone else who may work for them and their opinion on ho...

Prime Minister announces election will be Sept 14th

let the battle begin

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