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Year of the Snake

February 14, 2013

Welcome to the year of the snake. The snake is our ultimate materialist, keeping it’s belly close to the ground as it slithers along the surface of the world. Sensual and manipulative, the snake keeps its coils upon the pulse of people and things. A good year for the material realisation of ideas and projects […]

Fairfax Media Slashes Jobs – Digital Revolution is here!

June 20, 2012

Fairfax Media, publishers of Australia’s oldest and most respected newspapers, has taken dramatic action in response, to the ever declining print publishing business model, by announcing the imminent closure of two printing presses and the axing of 1900 jobs. The digital revolution is now well and truly here to stay, at the expense of old technologies […]

Why We Eat What We Eat

January 24, 2012

As a cooking teacher, who regularly meets people through my cooking classes, here on the sunshine coast, I get to see what a cross-section of society likes to eat and feels comfortable with on their plate. It is interesting to observe shared traits amongst the groups of people, who pass through my cooking school, and it […]

Secrets about you revealed within your home

August 18, 2011

Our own house may be a building containing many rooms or it may be a smaller space with fewer rooms, whatever the size, its lay-out and furnishings reflect who we are. Our home, the physical structure in which we reside is our castle and as such tells a story about our lives. You are the […]

Polymath

August 13, 2011

Having multiple talents and pursuing them in the marketplace, is it a blessing or a curse? I have a number of interests and have invested time in each of them and have achieved a level of proficiency in several of these pursuits. Does this entitle me to express these in the marketplace as vocations or […]

Imagine If You Will…

May 29, 2011

Imagine if you will, that you lived in a world where every day you were told that you had no influence on the really important things in your life. Imagine that you were born to parents, who likewise, believed that they, and you, had no power to affect the way life was; and that they […]

One God

May 4, 2011

Today in the harsh daylight of our overcrowded cities, in developed nations around the globe, we are encouraged to worship only one god, the holy dollar. People are rushing about in their cars, and on public transport, to reach their destinations, their places of work and of investment, where labour and lead may be turned […]

What is being human?

April 20, 2011

Our Posthuman Future – Consequences of the Biotechnology Revolution By Francis Fukuyama Profile Books, 2003. Book Review A disturbing orange cover, with a picture of what looks like a conveyer belt full of robotic looking babies stretching into infinity, possibly delayed my reading of this brilliant book. Its publication date accidentally synchronised with the birth […]

Is sex a mystical gateway?

March 18, 2011

Is sex a mystical gateway, to a boundless place of untold pleasures and exquisite pains, in your life? Sex, I think, is different things at different times of our lives. It reflects what we are seeking, at that juncture, and therefore, who, we are attracting into our life. For it is a union of energies […]

When someone you love judges you.

March 10, 2011

When someone you love judges you. What are the salves for the wound that festers beneath the skin? When it is someone, whom you have let in, spitting acid upon your sense of self. Judging, condemning and rejecting who you are. Where does the matter truly lie? What do they say,’ hold your loved ones […]

Denial the pathway of No

February 2, 2011

What is your pathway to truth and enlightenment? Is it one of self-denial and sacrifice? There are so many spiritual traditions based on the righteous denial of the flesh. Jesus dying on the cross, symbolising the death of the flesh as sacrifice to a metaphysical truth. Christianity has its genesis in this and condemns human […]

Gandhi

January 20, 2011

I enjoyed the opening installment of the program on Gandhi, currently showing on the ABC Monday’s at 7.30pm. It traced his roots to his birth town in India and looked at the early influences on his life. There is a tendency in us all, I think, to see great historical figures as ready-made and cardboard […]

Gay Marriage in Australia

January 15, 2011

Nothing annoys me more in the newspaper, than News Corp’s paid opinion piece writers ( I can’t call them journalists because they don’t do any journalism) commenting on what suburban Australian’s think and feel. How would they know? How long has it been since they have been out in the field actually asking people? There […]

Immigration Nation

January 9, 2011

I was very impressed with the first episode of Immigration Nation on SBS. It really brought home to me the deep-seated roots of racism in Australia and put it in an international context, showing it’s effect upon the world around us. To not realise, or not care, how this appalling attitude would impact on our […]

Bank Trading Hours

December 7, 2010

Why do we have a banking system, which makes multi-billion dollar profits and still operates for the consumer on a Mon-Frid 9am to 4pm or 5pm basis? In this digital age of Internet banking, is it not absurd that we as consumers, are still forced to wait for funds to be cleared as per when […]

The ALP and the Demise of the Two Party System

October 26, 2010

The ALP and the Demise of the Two Party System Australian Politics in Flux by Sudha Hamilton Discussion by political scribes, about the demise of the two party system in Australia, and in particular the waning of the Labor Party, is all the rage right now. Talk about the failure of the ALP to be […]

National Broadband Network

October 24, 2010

Murdoch’s News Corporation’s Campaign to Derail NBN by Sudha Hamilton We have a government attempting to build a real Australian wide national broadband network – this in an island continent like Australia is not an easy or cheap thing to do. Despite all the difficulties involved in doing this, and especially so with a minority […]

Fatherhood Part Two – the journey continues.

February 17, 2009

Having one child changed my world forever, having two in quick succession broke the camel’s back. There was nowhere left to hide, no time for a quick puff on a cigar on the porch, always a baby or toddler to get to sleep. I was working more and more from home to be on hand […]

Child Care Solutions

January 19, 2009

Child Care Solutions Aged care and child care synergies for a better world. By Sudha Hamilton. An idea that I have been carrying around for sometime is to do with two similar needs from two disparate subsections of our communities – the old and the very young both require care and company. What if we […]

Man Tu Par Utar Kanh Jaiho

December 18, 2008

To what shore would you cross, o my heart? There is no traveller before you, There is no road: Where is the movement, where is the rest, On that shore? There is no water; no boat, no boatman is there: There is not so much as a rope to tow the boat, Nor a man […]

You have to accept sadness.

December 18, 2008

You have to accept sadness. It will disappear only through acceptance. If you fight it, it will remain with you forever – it will become chronic. Sadness is perfectly natural. Sometimes it is cloudy, sometimes it is sunny. Exactly like that, sometimes it is sadness, sometimes it is joy. We have to love all the […]

Media Waning

December 17, 2008

Heading: Media Waning Subheading: The rapidly changing face of today’s media. Every time I accidentally flick on to the commercial, free to air, TV stations, I am truly amazed and appalled at what is showing. I try to remember if it has always been this bad or whether it appears worse now, because we have […]

Kevin Rudd’s Merry Christmas Aussie Battler’s Package

December 15, 2008

The recent ten billion dollar, Rudd Government, economic stimulus package is a wonderful Christmas present for many Australians who have been doing it tough. With credit tightening around the globe, for both big and small borrowers, it comes at a much needed time. Despite the boo hoos of the usual nay sayers, insert leader of […]

Foodmatters DVD Review

December 10, 2008

Heading: Foodmatters DVD Reviewed. Subheading: You are what you eat. I was really impressed with the content of Foodmatters – You are what you eat - strong voices speaking with confidence about nutrition in the face of the institutionalised apathetic attitude of the scientific/medical community. This subject has been close to my own heart for […]

Earth Hour

December 8, 2008

I am writing up the international copy of Earth Hour online for the WWF and it is bringing home to me what an exciting concept Earth Hour is. Researching what is happening in Moldova, Belize, Vietnam, Belgium, Panama, Kenya, Fiji and the list goes on and on, I can sense the amazing unifying energy that […]