Red light District WAKEUP AUSTRALIA?

...going for a coffee and heroin is on the menu? That is what Kings Cross has become a menu of drugs from where the cocaine or ice castles exist. Within a day of hitting the streets in Kings Cross you have some idea about the drug trade it is that obvious. Either make drugs legal or make being a drug user illegal after the consumption of the drugs.

The Outlaws are winning. We need the control put back to the police and to the governments of the day world wide.

What are we to do? Australia Wakeup. The longer the drugs flow the larger the drug barons earn more money.

Tags: drugs, kings cross, illegal, outlaws, decriminalise, drug barons.

I Am Sorry - a National Apology in Australia

While this could be seen as lacking in relevance to Broowaha readers, I beg to differ. We are after all, citizens of the world. So too, Americans and Australians alike are currently living in times of serious change and I believe, living in an atmosphere of hope.

On the 3rd of December, 2007 Australia changed government. Our 25th and second longest serving  Prime Minister, the Liberal Party’s John Howard was succeeded by Labor’s Kevin Rudd after 11 years of service. For 11 years, this minion of George Bush has succeeded at stripping my country of most things I believed in.  It was not... (more)

Tags: australia, indigenous australians, prime minister kevin rudd, australian history

An Australia Day Showdown: Meat Pie Vs Hot Dog

Australia day, celebrated on January 26th is fast approaching and all around Los Angeles, ‘G’day L.A.’ events are in motion. Australia Day commemorates the landing of the First Fleet in Sydney Cove in 1788 and is our official, national day - despite continuing to be shrouded with controversy. L.A. hosts ‘Australia Week’ from the 11th to the 20th of January, in the lead up to the big day. It showcases all things Australian from food, wine, film, arts, lifestyle, trade and investment to indigenous culture and tourism. Events are scattered across the city (and country), with Bristol Farms... (more)

Tags: los angeles, new york, san francisco, australia

Memo to critics of Augusta National: mind your own business

...back in 1934. We should be grateful they stage the Masters, not critical of them for no good reason, least of all for their attitudes to female membership.

Over my 56 years in the golf writing business I've been a member of ten golf clubs around the world, from Bermuda to Britain to Australia, so I believe I speak with authority on the subject.

Here's the crux: With each acceptance I signed a membership agreement that included my promise to abide by and honour the constitution of the club. Implicit in this, I agreed that I wouldn't campaign to change the club's rules on a... (more)

Tags: golf, the masters, augusta national, media criticism, all-male membership

Saving the planet one soul at a time

...ecological system, factors such as predation tends to keep population below the maximum carrying capacity provided by the physical environment. Dramatic exceptions occur when species are introduced in areas where they have no natural predators, and their numbers explode. Think cane toads in Australia.

As human beings have no natural predators other than themselves, their numbers have historically been limited by the carrying capacity of the land, war and disease. Advancements in technology have greatly increased carrying capacity and decreased the impact of disease, and so numbers... (more)

Tags: environment, consumerism, personal growth, extinction, spirituality, population, ecology, carrying capacity, resource depletion

Interview with author Jessica Yinka Thomas

... MBA from Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business.

The Interview

What inspired you to write your first book?

I started out writing nonfiction travel stories as I traveled around the world in my twenties. I read The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron while traveling across Australia and wrote in big letters at the close of the book, “I WILL WRITE A NOVEL.” That was 13 years ago. I’m inspired to write because I see storytelling as a compelling mode to engage people in big ideas. My hope is that everyone who reads my work will think about how they can find their... (more)

Tags: jessica yinka thomas, how not to save the world, how not to save the world by jessica yinka thomas

Legalise the Drugs and Crime will halve

...unsolved murders and disappearances within Kings Cross. One of those Juanita may be hidden with in this building in Kings Cross where the alleged asking for money that was asked for ranged from $10000, to $2500 a week to $100000.00. Brothels are a legal business where I come from in Sydney Australia, well this brothel is legal. The asking for Protection money to open this business has been endless, some call it extortion others promote it as an advertising cost. In Australia we have had many Royal Commissions pushing for the unveiling of the hidden black market and how it is being... (more)

Tags: drugs, juanita nielsen, kings cross, extortion, shootings

Decriminalise Drugs

...for a pro-reform camp, in his speech he advised: "Our commission found that in countries where drug addiction was decriminalised and regarded as a public health problem, there were decreases in crime, decreases in the number of addicts, and improvements in overall public health."

Like Australia many countries like Portugal have decriminalized the use and passion of drugs since 2001. By setting up clinics where heroin users have access to needles and methadone along with treatment for addiction. Portugal has reduced the users especially amoung the young people.

Yet Australia ... (more)

Tags: drugs, government, prohibition, legalising drugs, global drug commission

Save the date, says global Filipino group: May 11

...world to hold rallies in front of China’s embassies and consulates on May 11 to protest its recent aggressive encroachments on the Philippines’ Scarborough Shoal.

Her call quickly drew positive responses from an initial batch of Filipino groups in Hong Kong, Singapore, Canada and Australia.

China considers the Scarborough Shoal, located 124 nautical miles from the Philippines’ Zambales province, to be its “inherent territory” even though it lies more than 500 nautical miles from the nearest China port of Hainan.

Manila on Thursday stepped up its calls to the ... (more)

Tags: china, philippines, west philippine sea, south china sea

Drug dealers and users are allegedly utilising Facebook

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Whilst we all love facebook, all the countries worldwide are fiighting the war on drugs. With the necessary computer language we can improve facebook and help many generations to come to be protected. I would like to bring to your attention the world wide users, that members in Australia that are telling others they are doing drugs on facebook explained to me that they utilise the message hidden between facebook users to organise drugs.

The front man on the ground in Kings Cross with links to Outlaw Motor Bike Gangs in Sydney. With other members with his links are... (more)

Tags: facebook, drug dealer, dealer