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A pilot from the Royal Flying Doctor Service holds hands with a kangaroo. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-04-18/kangaroo-shakes-hands-with-pilot/103738778 Incidentally the RFDS was largely started by the Rev. John Flynn, a presbyterian pastor. It was to assist people in the far flung reaches...

There was a knife attack at a shopping centre in Bondi today. It appears to be about 2.5 kms (1.5 miles) west from (world famous) Bondi Beach. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-04-13/nsw-westfield-bondi-junction-evacuated-after-stabbing/103704952 As yet we haven't been told the motive but six...

I've started watching a DVD on the rosary which I picked up at our local Catholic bookstore. I'm not a practitioner but I strongly suspect I should be. It's filmed inside a church with the priest speaking from the pulpit to a visible congregation. So far I'm only about third of the way through...

A drone operator happened to be in the right place at the right time to film this mass migration of cownose rays off Forster in New South Wales, Australia. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-01-16/cownose-rays-mass-migration-rare-sighting-forster-nsw/103321282 Forster is about 315 kilometers...

A couple of fishermen have had close encounters with crocodiles in north Queensland recently. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-01-05/crocodile-jumps-onto-fishing-pontoon-coorooman-creek-queensland/103287686 A video about half way down the article gives some idea of how difficult they are to...

There's been a lot of fuss made about Oli the Cat who completed the Sydney-Hobart sailing race in Hobart today. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-01-03/tas-oli-the-cat-completes-sydney-to-hobart-yacht-race/103280770 Oli seemed to purr-ceive the whole thing in typical feline fashion -...

A small eastern brown snake held up play at the Brisbane International Tennis Championships today. It had previously been delayed due to storms. https://www.tennisworldusa.org/tennis/news/Tennis_Stories/141355/photo-deadly-australian-snake-on-court-suspends-dominic-thiem-s-brisbane-match/...

A young elephant seal has been making a name for himself in some beachside towns in Tasmania in the south of Australia. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-12-20/neil-the-elephant-seal-tiktok-instagram-facebook-tasmanian-star/103245168 He's shown up at a small town called Dunalley and at Kingston...

I'm not sure if this should be posted here or in the news section, but the following news item has a video of sharks circling bait fish near a place called 1770 on the Queensland Coast. It's actually about a shark attack, the second in the last week in Queensland waters. The moving dark shadow...

Brian Houston, who founded Hillsong in 1983 in Sydney, has been found not guilty "... of concealing his father's sexual abuse of a child." https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-08-17/hillsong-founder-brian-houston-not-guilty/102740394 It seems he is still working as a pastor in Sydney, but he no...

It looks like Lemmings aren't the only creatures with a reputation of throwing themselves into water, although that may be more fiction than fact. https://www.britannica.com/story/do-lemmings-really-commit-mass-suicide Now some drones have joined the act...

I was aware of some of the better known of Padre Pio's supernatural abilities such as diverting bombers by levitating above a village, but I wasn't aware of the sheer number of divine insights he had. https://caccioppoli.com/St.%20Padre%20Pio%20Prophecy.html God must have been constantly...

The Australian Geographic shortlist for the nature photographer of the year is shown below. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-06-11/australian-geographic-nature-photographer-of-the-year-sa-museum/102460898 There's an article here on the magazine itself...

Tina Turner, the "Queen of Rock n Roll" died yesterday. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-05-25/singer-tina-turner-has-died-aged-83/102389716 While I was not particularly a fan (although "Nutbush City Limits" was certainly catchy) I mention it here instead of the news section as she had...

I've been attending an "Archdiocesan Summit" over the last couple of days and it finishes tomorrow. https://evangelisationbrisbane.org.au/summit/ One of the speakers is an American lady Sherry Weddell who co-founded the Catherine of Siena Institute way back in 1997. https://siena.org/...

While this is technically "news" as I lifted it off the ABC (Australia) news website, it probably belongs in a testimonial section. It's about the son of Vietnamese refugees who settled in Western Sydney (which can be a crime prone area). He became a gang member and drug dealer, but eventually...

THAT NAGGING FEELING Tom pulled off the gloves. It had been a cold ride, the temperature just reaching 15 degrees if the weather forecast was correct - cold but satisfying. The gloves had been handy though – his hands would have been blocks of ice by now if he'd left them behind. The biker...

I happened to see this article on the (Australian) ABC news website tonight. https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2023-03-19/nuclear-fission-iter-experiment-france-construction/102050226 It would appear to be the ITER project "International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor", and is being...

I'm not sure where to put this, but it's an article about Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, who is making waves in Saudi Arabia. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-02-09/who-is-mohammed-bin-salmans-mbs-saudi-arabia/101901392 The reason I put this here is because of a comment my old Presbyterian...

There was an item on the ABC news a couple of days ago about a young boy being killed in an accident at a shopping centre in Palmerston, which is about 15 minutes drive from Darwin. My wife and I spent a couple of weeks in Darwin in June / July this year, wiht a side trip to Palmerston, and I...