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When bushfire threatens – I reach for dried beans…
When you are preparing a ‘go bag’ for bushfire threats, what do you pack? In my case – along with the usual passport, clothes, medications, phone chargers etc – I pack a plastic container full of dried beans. Let me … Continue reading
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What is this thing? – please help me solve a 50-year-old mystery
I am reaching out to the internet for help in solving a 50-year-old mystery: what on earth is this object? It looks like a petrified apple. It weighs 76 grams, is about 5cm in diameter, and appears to be made … Continue reading
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Tagged apple fossil, fossilised apple, fossilized apple, petrified apple, pompeii apple
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Five years on: my COVID project stands the test of time
Today marks five years since the first national COVID lockdown in Australia – five years since (like so many others) my wife Chris and I watched our small business seemingly evaporate overnight. It was a bleak, scary time for us. … Continue reading
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Tagged Adelaide Hills, bird proofing, espalier, garden, gardening, guinea pigs, homesteading, quails, raised beds, tomatoes, vege gardening, vegetables
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Happy Birthday to us – NRMjobs turns 25
This weekend my wife Chris Duigan and I are celebrating our silver anniversary. Not our wedding anniversary, but something almost as significant. On Sunday, it will be 25 years to the day since we launched NRMjobs – our family business, … Continue reading
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Claiming copyright revenue for nature
“A video game featuring a critically endangered Australian marsupial has brought in eight-figure takings for its owners, but the bandicoots are no better off as a result.” Continue reading
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Tagged bandicoot, cecil the lion, conservation, environment, environmental funding, lemurs
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Could a robot do bush care?
Could robots ever replace human bush carers? Experts cautiously say ‘yes’. Continue reading
“The country needs its people”
– why closing remote Aboriginal communities is a bad idea for everyone What if Aboriginal people did take Prime Minister Tony Abbott at his word, and abandoned their “lifestyle choices” to dwell on tiny communities in traditional lands? The country … Continue reading
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A farewell to my absent friend
It’s been 10 days now since I last saw my old friend Jango. It’s time I faced the truth: he is either dead, or in prison. For his sake, I hope it is the former. Jango first came into my life … Continue reading
Anzac Day and all that…
It’s the little things that get you. Look at this photo for example. It’s what finally got to me. What the photo shows is my grandfather’s initials, carefully written in 1917 – somewhere in the battlefields of France – on … Continue reading
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