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September 6, 2007

Cuddie Springs Open Day

The round area shown on the aerial photograph is the dry lake bed of Cuddie Springs.
The round area shown on the aerial photograph is the dry lake bed of Cuddie Springs.
Photo: J. Field © Australian Museum


Sunday 9th September
10 am to 4 pm

Cuddie Springs, near Walgett, is one of Australia's oldest and most significant archaeological sites. Bones of giant extinct marsupials, giant goannas and birds are found with stone tools made by Aboriginal people. Aboriginal occupation is dated to around 40,000 years. Excavations here are currently underway and the public is invited to join in the fun next Sunday to find out what the archaeologists are up to and what the site is all about.

August 18, 2007

Cancer Cure

There has been a lot of controversy over many years regarding Perth based Dr John Holt's microwave therapy treatment for cancer sufferers. Many of his patients and advocates maintain that his treatment is effective and has saved a number of lives. Others in the medical and scientific community denounce the treatment.

Some months ago, A Current Affair aired a story on Perth-based surgeon, Dr John Holt, whom many believe has the cure for cancer. The NHMRC is supposedly conducting a review of Dr Holt's method of cancer treatment, Microwave Cancer Therapy.

The original date for this review to be submitted to the Minister for Health was December 21, 2004. It was not submitted.

A further date was set. Again, the review was not submitted. It has still not been submitted. Strange when considering Dr Holt's claim was that he could train any doctor to apply his therapy in a day. Dr Holt, who is 80 years old, has cured thousands of people of many forms of cancer and closed his practice on June 30, 2005. Is it because his method of treatment is considered by our government to be unorthodox?

Chemotherapy (a known killer), is the accepted, orthodox method in cancer treatment. Dr Holt's retirement has been a great loss to his patients and to the many thousands who could possibly be cured by his clearly successful method; people who will be told by oncologists that there is nothing more that can be done for them. This is your chance to help fellow Australians, who finally have a chance to beat cancer, keep Dr Holt's work from being buried by our bureaucrats.

Have you ever noticed how many appeals there are for cancer research, and yet after more than three decades, there is no cure? Ever noticed how every cancer cure ultimately gets swept under the carpet?

Cancer is a multi-billion dollar global industry that will not recognize any cure that cannot be manufactured as a patentable drug. It's about money.

Check it out on the web. It makes very interesting reading.

Medical history is peppered with similar examples of important discoveries, which were ignored and decades later, were acclaimed as a wonderful new treatment or preventive measure, with somebody other than the original pioneer getting the credit. This occurred after thousands, maybe millions had suffered or died needlessly. I pray that we will not see this happen again with Dr John Holt's work.

NHMRC review of microwave cancer therapy

Media Doctor Australia, The doctor many believe can cure cancer

Holt microwave therapy

August 13, 2007

Australia a Danger Zone for British Tourists

This week in the news there's been lots of warnings to the Brits about the dangers of travelling Down Under.

Australia is the second most dangerous nation in the world for travelling Britons, The Guardian newspaper in England has reported, The report cites new British Foreign Office figures that show the number of Britons requiring consular assistance in Australia was second only to Thailand.

Violent crime, extreme weather and incidents involving fauna were said to have contributed to the high demand for consular services. The paper reported 59 Britons died in Australia between April 2005 and March last year.

Britons are also most likely to lose their passport Down Under.

Australia has acquired the reputation of a tourist hazard spot in recent years, thanks to several prominent if atypical cases.

In 2002 a British swimmer was killed by a tiny and little-understood jellyfish in northern Queensland, and a German tourist was killed by a crocodile in Kakadu national park in the Northern Territory.

The previous year the British tourist Peter Falconio was ambushed on a quiet outback highway in 2001, 19-year-old Caroline Stuttle was thrown 65ft to her death from a bridge in 2002, and Robert Long was jailed for 20 years for murder and arson after killing 15 people by setting fire to a Queensland backpacker hostel in 2000.

Two British surfers were airlifted to hospital with spinal injuries in December 2003 after being dumped by heavy waves at Bondi Beach and Stanwell Beach, south of Sydney.

Brighton Beach, Melbourne

Brighton Beach, Melbourne by Susi Miller, a runner-up in the Lonely Planet photo competition of iconic Australian images.

August 9, 2007

Man Cleared of Sleepwalk Sex

God, how I wish I could have been on this jury. What were these people thinking to allow this man to get away with a story like this? What if the girl in question was 12 instead of 15? Would he still have walked? I'm dumbfounded and disgusted.

A Britich RAF mechanic who claimed he was sleepwalking when he had sex with a 15-year-old girl has been cleared of rape.

Senior Aircraftsman Kenneth Ecott, 26, wept after a jury took two hours to find he was not responsible for his actions. Mr Ecott did not deny having sex with the girl, but said he had no memory of it happening. Instead he insisted he had a condition known as sexsomnia in which sufferers carry out indecent acts in their sleep.

It was this affliction that made him climb naked on top of the girl at a friend's birthday party sleepover in Poole, Dorset, the Bournemouth Crown Court heard. The girl screamed when she awoke, and the man was said to have confessed to the girl's family and apologised for having sex with her. When he was arrested in his barracks at RAF Brize Norton, Oxfordshire, he told police he was prone to sleepwalking.

He claimed to have been in a state of automatism while with the girl, meaning he was not aware of his actions. His girlfriend told the court that he had fondled her in bed while asleep.

August 2, 2007

Half Million Compensation for Stolen Generation Man

A man who has won the nation's first Stolen Generations compensation case says the judgement is a "leap forward" in the push for reconciliation.

Ngarrindjeri man Bruce Trevorrow has been awarded $525,000 in the South Australian Supreme Court for being taken from his family when he was just 13 months old.

Don't tell me the Government is going to compensate every "stolen generation" person. Who pays for that, I wonder. One comment on the story summed this up perfectly for me:

I spoke to a mate about him being one of the stolen generation and he said, "If I hadn't been taken away I would now be sitting in the dirt drinking, instead of having a good job a great family, a car and boat and I certainly wouldn't be playing golf with you now."

What about all the children taken from their addict and alcoholic parents? Are they not also stolen children? They too are put into foster care and have similar troubled lives. Are we going to compensate them too?

July 29, 2007

Double-Check Everything on Your Car

Alex and I went to football in Adelong yesterday and it's a steep, windy drive all the way. I admit that I generally speed everywhere I go, we're always running late. We got home around 2pm and I noticed a knock in the front wheel, so as soon as we pulled up out the front of home, Alex checked it for me. One wheel nut was missing, another one ready to fall out, and 2 others so loose you could turn them with your fingers. Only one wheel nut was tight. I was horrified thinking about what might have happened if we'd lost a wheel while negotiating those tight curves.

About 6 weeks ago I had to get the power steering rack replaced on the car and I needed a wheel alignment afterwards. At the same time I got them to rotate the wheels. I can only assume that they forgot to tighten the nuts on the front wheel. I've never thought to check wheel nuts after I've had something done to the car in the past, you always trust those people to do the right thing, but I certainly will be checking everything from now on.

Last Saturday I drove to Sydney and home, two weeks prior to that I drove to Canberra and back, with numerous trips to Wagga and home in between. I'm just so grateful that nothing awful happened, and everything is okay now.

June 28, 2007

Earth In Peril

bze-logo-sm.gifSea levels will rise by several metres by the end of the century due to rapidly increasing greenhouse gas concentrations, according to research by a group of esteemed international scientists. This is the latest news from Beyond Zero Emissions, a pretty frightening prediction in the article entitled NASA: "Earth in Peril" - Several metre sea level rise this century. Beyond Zero Emissions is calling on the Australian Government to take global leadership and to legislate national zero emission targets. The technology is already available. All that is required is the political will.

"This paper spells devastation for Australia," said Matthew Wright, lead spokesman for Beyond Zero Emissions. "The impact of the predicted sea level rise will have cataclysmic effects for the millions of Australians in coastal communities around the nation. The events in New South Wales recently are just a small taste of what's to come."

Beyond Zero Emissions goal is to facilitate the implementation of the social changes and technologies that will reduce the impacts of climate change and give our society, and today’s global ecosystems, a chance of surviving into the future. The site offers lots of ways for people to get involved:

Beyond Zero Emissions campaign seeks to reduce atmospheric greenhouse gases to a level that will enable humanity and our natural environment to thrive and flourish. I can't think of a better reason to get involved.

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