by month
Welcome
This blog continues at Floating Life and at Ninglun's Specials which in turn continues its former photo blog function at Neil's Modest Photo Blog.
************
Read my Pakistani Spectator interview
************
Search WordPress.com [new].
Search all Floating Life on WordPress sites
************
Neil’s Second Decade
- Music and my life– 2— 1945 January 17, 2012
- Chinese interlude January 16, 2012
- Cabramatta again, and William Yang January 15, 2012
- 1952 January 14, 2012
- Jeanette Heather Whitfield: 1940 – 1952 January 13, 2012
Rant guide
2007 in review Aussie interest blogging Brendan Nelson climate change Computers and WWW Cultural and other Current affairs Diversions Education Events Faith and philosophy Films, DVDs, TV gay life/issues immigration Indigenous Australians Israel Jim Belshaw Kevin Rudd M Marcel Multiculturalism and diversity my sites News and Current Affairs Observations OzLit Personal poets and poetry Politics Pontification and raving racism Reading Reconciliation Religion Surry Hills Tony Abbott travel Web stuff Weird writingPost tags
20th century poetry Australian poetry Best Read of 2006 Best Read of 2007 Bible Burma capital punishment China forbidden topic Christianity citizenship culture war culture wars environment ex-students/coachees family stories folly Friday poem global warming health Howard government human rights insanity Iran Iraq Islam Judith Wright Julie Bishop Kenneth Slessor Lord Malcolm M's trip mardi gras meet a blog milestones Miranda Devine music Rabbit refugees Sirdan social justice South Sydney Uniting Church Sydney teachers teaching The Shire US politics-
Recent Comments
- Climate Change Sceptics please note:
The Great Global Warming Swindle Swindle. Go here for the real story. POST UPDATED AND EXPANDED 16 July 2007.
See also How to Talk to a Climate Skeptic from 3 Quarks Daily.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
Nine Lies About Climate Change (2008).
Real Climate: Climate Science from Climate Scientists -- blog.
The Discovery of Global Warming -- on the Web site of the Center for History of Physics of the American Institute of Physics.
Category Archives: Israel
Ancient history
What now must be ancient history itself is the fact that I taught Ancient History for the HSC, almost twenty years ago. The last gig was particularly fascinating because it was at a Jewish school and involved teaching the history … Continue reading
Posted in Cultural and other, Education, Israel, Observations
My South Sydney Herald piece
Inside the Whale Former ABC Middle East correspondent Mark Willacy doesn’t just take you into the news or even behind the news. He takes you under the news – and I for one wanted to scream. Not at Willacy, but … Continue reading
Posted in Aussie interest, Current affairs, Israel, News and Current Affairs, Personal, Surry Hills
Tagged Iraq, South Sydney Uniting Church
1 Comment
Finished my journalism
Yesterday’s draft was acceptable to my editors. This morning I ran it by Mark Willacy himself and got some additional material and updates. He is now with The 7.30 Report*. In conversation last year with Richard Fidler on Local ABC … Continue reading
Posted in Aussie interest, Current affairs, Israel, News and Current Affairs, Personal, writing
Something that has come my way…
I find myself needing to read The View from the Valley of Hell (Pan Macmillan 2007) at short order, not that I am complaining. Currently working on ABC-TV’s Landline, Mark Willacy was the ABC’s Middle East correspondent from 2002 to 2006, … Continue reading
The march of folly and the guns of war
Yes, I have appropriated and adapted two of Barbara Tuchman’s famous 20th century histories to create that title, because they are so sadly apt in the current world climate. First, let me get a disclaimer (or several) out of the … Continue reading
Posted in Current affairs, Israel, News and Current Affairs, Observations
Tagged folly, Iran, Islam, Miranda Devine
2 Comments
Soul-searching in Australian Jewish community
The recent controversy within the Australian Jewish community over the State of Israel and its policies is not new. I can recall such discussions back in 1988-89 when I was working within the Jewish and local Israeli communities, but they … Continue reading