Category: Columns
Geoff has written for publications as diverse as PC User and The Northern Star His weekly columns have been a source of humour and inspiration for tens of thousands of readers and his mailbox is always full.
Here you can find his more recent contributions.
admin /14 December, 2008
Land owners around Hanging Rock on the lip of the caldera last week threatened to sabotage aerial photography of the World Championship Rally next September if the organisers do not live up the promises of their environmental policy. The Rally is one of twelve legs of Fédération Internationale de l’Automobile’s (FIA’s) World Rally Championship, billed as the next biggest thing after Formula One. Last week, Formula One organisers announced an end to ‘obscene’ financial waste. This was an attempt at damage control brought on by Honda’s decision to pocket the 500million US dollars it spends every year to keep two Formula One cars in the competition.
The World Rally Championship is not quite so high octane, but the drivers will spend a week on Sydney harbour pouring champagne and Agwa down the throats of Australia’s media before they head up here to ‘shake down’ the track on September 1.
admin /8 December, 2008
More lanes for locals will be available in the swimming pools of the Tweed this week as banana benders head back across the border to swim in their own back yard. They have been down here, using up our water, because the Gold Coast Council closed 23 pools last month as a result of stray Continue Reading →
admin /8 December, 2008
The Summerland Highway between Lismore and Grafton wends its way through plantations of pinus radiata and eucalyptus maculata, grandis and pilularis. These plantations have been predominantly owned and managed by State Forests but recently, a number of government incentives have made planting trees on private land commercially attractive. The latest is a tax break offered Continue Reading →
Geoff Ebbs /7 December, 2008
A series by Laurie Stubbs – first published in the Nimbin Good Times The series sets out a trial set of values based on the principle Life Develops Itself (LDI) Take anything you want from the Earth and use it, but when you have finished with it return it to the Earth in the same Continue Reading →
admin /22 November, 2008
Tweed Mayor Madam Lashout has not gone Green, despite rumblings to that effect from Youngblood and the Poltergeist. The decision last week to disengage from the race to the bottom and put quality above quantity at Hastings Point makes commercial as well as environmental sense. As Lashout herself put it, “Byron Bay is hyper-expensive because Continue Reading →
admin /16 October, 2008
In Xanadu did Kubla Khan, his sacred pleasure dome decree. Where Alph, the sacred river, ran
through caverns measureless to man, down to a sunless sea – Coleridge
Sister Genevieve is 82 and mows with a Victa four-stroke. She turned off the mower and adjusted her habit as I sauntered into view.
“I’m sorry to disturb your peace with my insane petrol engine.â€
A mischevious twinkle told me I was not in too much trouble, but I heard the thin ice creak and apologised profusely.
