Archive for December, 2007

• 2008. LOOKING BACK. LOOKING FORWARD:

  Saturday, December 29th, 2007

    New year 2008. I time for looking back, and a time for looking forward.
  In a changing world, milestones flash past the window with barely a moment’s thought. At the start of a new year, here a moment is taken in thought, to look back, and look ahead into 2008.

• YALANJI…justice is a long time coming.

  Monday, December 10th, 2007

  When Captain Cook went aground off Douglas Shire, naming the nearest headland ‘Tribulation’, and its neighboring mountain, ‘Sorrow’, little did he know how much sorrow and tribulation he would end up bestowing on the local Yalanji.
  Unlike the Macassan’s who had traded, lived and shared their lives with the northern indigenous communities for hundreds of […]

• WHY NO TO FLUORIDE?

  Friday, December 7th, 2007

  There was time, in the 60’s and 70’s, when the dental lobbyists could spin their tales of dental demise, along with “side effects? what side effects?” ….with only tiny majority of population having access to the other side of the story on fluoridation. Then the net came along, laying out research outcome, ontop […]

• ICON LEGISLATION…who will hold the key to future changes?

  Sunday, December 2nd, 2007

  The visit of Deputy Premiere Paul Lucas on November 30, raises more questions than it answers about the iconic legislation, coming Douglas Shire’s way, and, the legislation is coming our way….in one form or another or according to Paul. Paul was visting teh area to gather our community leaders views, for which we thank him.
  As […]