Archive for 'Remote Living'
Musical Interlude I
Welcome to another Pleasant Sunday Afternoon.
I am unsure if this is best played by oboe or flute.
Well the drive up the Stuart Highway can be boring to some.
Today we have an extra part to our Pleasant Sunday Afternoon. And it’s for free. Actually, I am unsure if I can even give it away! Those who [...]
Posted: January 4th, 2009 under PSA - Pleasant Sunday Afternoon, Remote Living.
Tags: humour, PSA - Pleasant Sunday Afternoon, road sign
Comments: 3
Top Ten: Why not? Everyone else is.
It is possibly a bit pretentious as I have only been blogging since August. And regularly blogging since mid December with only 71 posts. But everyone else has been doing it.
Consider it showing my newer subscribers some earlier “quality” posts.
So my ten most popular posts are:
1. “A Drive in The Country: It took this truck [...]
Posted: January 2nd, 2009 under Indigenous, PSA - Pleasant Sunday Afternoon, Remote Living, Remote health, Rural Health, blog.
Tags: aboriginal, bush, CRANA, health, Indigenous, Oodnadatta, PSA - Pleasant Sunday Afternoon, remote
Comments: 3
Bush Heritage
I am privileged to live in one of the most beautiful places on Earth. Not a smack you in the face kind of landscape that the Kimberley has, but more subtle with a variety of landscapes.
Australia has nearly 1600 species of plants and animals listed as nationally threatened with 788 of them [...]
Posted: December 25th, 2008 under Remote Living.
Tags: biodiversity, bush, landscape, remote
Comments: 2
Cancer and Indigenous Australians - Is It all in the Genes?
The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare have recently released a report titled Cancer in Australia: an overview, 2008.
I was a little disappointed that there was only a couple of comments, with no explanation, about the much higher incidences of cancer within our remote indigenous population. This is despite a number of studies being [...]
Posted: December 23rd, 2008 under Indigenous, Remote Living, Remote health.
Tags: aboriginal, cancer, health, immunisation, Indigenous, melanoma, remote, smoking, vaccinations
Comments: 4