Marco's Blog

There is quite an eerie duality between the lakes of the "wild" west-flowing rivers (in general they flow to wards Lake Eyre) and ...

The ability for high level diplomats to say one thing *on the record* to each other, and say completely different things in public or to the...

From article ''I grew up in a Queensland country town, where people spoke their minds bluntly,'' he wrote. ''They di...

It appears WWI of cyberwars has begun. It seems to be a fair fight, with weapons of choice being Distributed Denial of service attacks. The ...

It seems most reputable sites and countries are trying to cut the information off but, It's not realistic that the information is going...

Is it just me, or does anyone else see the contradictions in the news articles in regards to the Murray River? If you google "Murray...

These were - The population bomb - in English, it might have been a 1977 Christmas present from my parents who were in Australia at the time...

I don't necessarily believe in a big China, Europe, America etc. On balance, them shrinking would leave a nice vacuum for us to fill. I ...

It appears that Fibre To The Home was what sold the Labor party plan to the New England independent representative Tony Windsor. I don't...

I have been following the progress on the Governments negotiations with Telstra and the other powers that be over the new plan for Fibre to ...

1) We has done some naughty stuff and deserve to get punished. 2) 6 is a perfect number (ie. the sum of its factors other than itself {1,2,3...

Hi, My name is Marco - I have five children, three dogs, a worm farm and a pregnant wife - And I've just turned forty. So much is happen...

As promised I would like to explain that I don't perceive "brands" of schools and my way of valuing schools to send my childre...

I am traditionally coy about revealing intentions on increasing my family size. Don't feel bad - it's just a Parigi tradition. I fig...

Bring on the mining tax! I can't believe the amount of traction miners are getting with their campaign against the super profits tax. Au...

I am so proud of my 7 year old son. He is learning about space at the moment and, jokingly, his teacher aide has been threatening to send hi...

There is no way around it - Facebook is a poor substitute for just saying what I want to say about whatever is on my mind (without distracti...

For probably months now, our family-Easter-Tasmania road trip (+band contest) has been my main focus. It culminated in trying to squeeze a f...

Things that I wanted to post about but haven't found the time: - I have been following with interest where the water ends up from the ma...

I have thought about this long and hard, but the development that the Higher education system (including private universities) is being tran...