The View from Down Here

The musings of an Aussie seeing the world from waist high.... from a wheelchair

Month: November, 2008

Joern Utzon sets sail.

The danish architect of the famous sails of the Sydney Opera House has died of a heart attack at his home at the ripe old age of 90.
The man gives me hope. even when you lose battles with your bosse – in time you might be proved right.

Bali bombers gone.

After 6 years the three master minds of the bombings that killed 88 Australians have now been executed by firing squad.
I lived in WA at the time and many of the killed and injured were from the West. I remember clearly the shock waves in Perth as many of our own who were holiday-makers who [...]