The View from Down Here

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

Tag: australia

We are shrinking and maybe not just the economy

It seems official. Australia has just experienced its first quarter of negative growth in 8 years with a drop of half a percent in the GDP.  We are spending less after the aparent boom of the past 17 years. As Peter Hatcher as pointed out this must be exceedingly frustruteding for the Government.
For Rudd Labor, [...]

Anzac thoughts

I watched a lot of television yesterday: the ANZAC day coverage. Moved and annoyed.
My grandfather was an engineer during WWI – on the Western Front. He came back and married my grandmother sometime later. He lived to 91. It might be hard to argue that his life was shortened, but as I sat there watching [...]