Like it not, I will use the US currency for the price of a packet of 20 fags from around the world. US, $8 to $12 UK, $15 to $18 France, $12...

I learnt this evening from a friend who I dined with that Pancake Parlour is a Scientology business, its founders all being of the faith. I ...

One should not be so cruel but sometimes people deserve a dose of cruelty, such as Sydney celebrity socialite Vanessa Jacobs Fennell. It us ...

Year after year, our New Year's Day ABC 7am radio news tells us police are generally happy with the the NYE crowd behaviour.  As the rad...

Apparently some people nick meat from supermarkets. They must be quite skilled if they can conceal a leg of lamb. There is so much security ...

There is some kind of arms exhibition in Melbourne this week. Ok, I looked here . We were not told of this in advance, though the planning w...

Daddy was a cop on the east side of Chicago. Back in the USA, back in the bad old days. Sorry about the photos. They could have been a lot b...

Maybe it was just as well as yesterday's post was lost as things have changed. Someone has been taken into custody related to the missin...

I hit one key and my whole post disappeared, leaving me only with an aitch. Strangely the labels for the post remain. Ah well, plenty of stu...

This was a major headline media story because it is a very unusual thing to happen. Benjamin Phikhohpoom (by his name I guess he is of Thai ...

Tasty was a brilliant nightclub. Fortunately we were not there on this night. The raid was an utter disgrace as under the evil conservative ...

This happened maybe five kilometres away from The Highrise and I find it just so distressing as a innocent worker was on his way home and br...

As Caro mentioned at the end of a blog post , Australia is mourning over the death of two police officers in Queensland, as reported shot do...