Opinion

Across The River by Geoff Goodfellow

Up the creek with a couple of wives

Posted: 16 May 12 | THERE has been much post-budget talk this past week about taxes - mining tax, personal tax, business tax rates and distribution of taxes - so how would you like to live in a relatively crime free country where you pay no tax, no school or university fees, have no medical bills and where the government gives you a free house plus a sizable gratuity when you get married. |

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Live human trafficking is still legal

Posted: 08 May 12 | WE’VE been catching planes to strange places on and off since the 1970s and I am convinced flying cattle class is progressively becoming more cramped. |

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A French letter from up the Rhône a bit

Posted: 01 May 12 | ON Sunday French electors will choose between “a dull and uninspiring man,” or “a little bit of bling in a suit” to run their country, so this week we should talk about France, the French people and of course French letters |

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For our tomorrow they gave their today

Posted: 24 Apr 12 | THERE is a monument to the fallen in Burma with a tribute that probably sums up the reason why we will pause today at Anzac Day services to pay our respects to the many Australians who have given their lives in the defence of our freedom. |

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Haemorrhoid, Pothole, Tripod and Clock

Posted: 17 Apr 12 | I LOVE laconic Australian humour, which is often irreverent, with wit as dry as the proverbial dead dingo’s donga. |

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Dung, dead donkeys and ideas for council

Posted: 10 Apr 12 | OUT among the grape vines and pretty Italian hills of Tuscany is the wonderful medieval city of Siena. |

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Sarah Pipiline, Dooley Franks and celibacy

Posted: 03 Apr 12 | AS Easter looms many devout pilgrims from around the world are descending on St Peter’s Square in Rome to fulfil a lifelong ambition of visiting the most holy place for Roman Catholics on the planet. They are thinking pure thoughts, paying their respects, praying earnestly and getting blessings from men in flowing frocks. |

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Fancy yourself as a councillor, eh?

Posted: 27 Mar 12 | WITH the 2012 local government elections due in September, right now is a mighty good time to decide if you are interested in becoming a councillor on the Wingecarribee Shire Council because you’ll need plenty of time to prepare. |

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A secret plan to invade Australia revealed

Posted: 20 Mar 12 | DID you know that there was a time when all of the Chinese restaurants across the country, including the ones on the Southern Highlands, were linked by a tunnel system in a dastardly plot by the Red Army to take over Australia? No I didn’t know that either. |

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Is this the mother of all hard luck stories?

Posted: 13 Mar 12 | AS this is the Australian Year of the Farmer and Moss Vale Show week, I thought we should share a mighty convincing hard luck story told by a struggling Cocky many years ago when men were men, women were in the kitchen and times were tough. |

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It’s a cow of a time on the Highlands

Posted: 06 Mar 12 | IF the rain stops, farmers from wide and far will be putting their best cattle on the back of the truck this week for the Robertson Show before heading for Moss Vale the week after. |

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Catapulted out of their director’s chairs

Posted: 28 Feb 12 | I MUST pay tribute to three mighty fine men at the peak of their careers who have vacated the director’s chairs in the Wingecarribee Shire Council staff restructure to make way for two new deputy general managers. |

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Frisky ferrets, curly hair and deadly donkeys

Posted: 22 Feb 12 | ‘WHERE do you find the curliest hair on women?” asked young Dud and the teacher cringed. This lovely young lady fresh out of teachers’ college had introduced a trivia quiz each morning in the classroom to get the students’ brains working and it was young Dud’s turn to ask the five questions he had prepared. |

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Where people in the street still say g’day

Posted: 15 Feb 12 | ON Dudley’s first day working at a local fruit shop, a customer asked him if she could buy half an apple. |

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Carping on about the Wingecarribee River

Posted: 08 Feb 12 | GOOD on Andrew Hearn and his helpers for once again putting in the hard yards to organise the upcoming annual Carpathon in the Wingecarribee River. |

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When cast iron guts are so very useful

Posted: 31 Jan 12 | "BLOODY HELL, there sure are some blowflies hanging around these toilets,” said Young Dud to an older boy standing beside him at the urinal in his dormitory on his first day at boarding school. |

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Sorry Sir, but the dog ate my homework

Posted: 24 Jan 12 | AS EXCUSES go, Captain Francesco Schettina claiming he tripped and fell into a lifeboat on the stricken Italian ocean liner Costa Concordia as the reason he went ashore rather than stay on board to co-ordinate the recovery operation, was a tad shabby, wasn’t it? Not sure if anyone actually believed him but, hey, he gets some points for originality. |

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