With the recent tragic bushfires in Victoria I felt proud to be an Australian when I saw how quickly and willingly we, as a nation, rushed to help those people who lost their homes and loved ones. Within days we had dug deep and raised over 10 million dollars, loaded up trucks with food and [...]

The other day my ten year old daughter asked me for something which took me by surprise. She asked me if I would take her to the Great Barrier Reef this year because she wanted to see it before it disappeared. The reason I was surprised by this was not because I disagreed with her [...]

I can remember walking home from school, back in the late 60s, in the middle of winter. Even though we lived in a temperate climate (in Australia) it seemed like every day from May through July, as I walked home from school with my brothers and sisters, it was always freezing cold and wet. In [...]

Do you remember setting up those mini glasshouses in those bell bottomed bottles back in the 70s? Mini ecosystems with an assortment of dwarfed plants co-existing in a closed environment sealed with an unusually large cork. I loved the one we had sitting by the dining room window and for some reason those plants outlived [...]

Imagine if “Planet Earth” was a global company listed on the stock exchange and at birth our parents started buying us shares in this company. As we grew our parents would continue to buy us shares until we were old enough to buy our own. We all kept our shares knowing that they were a [...]