No computer or internet access for our fortnight in the north, but back in Melbourne now for the last few days of our holiday.  We’ve gone from 36 degrees back down to 14 in Melbourne, but the sun has been shining so that helps. It’s been 16 years since I first went to Kakadu in the Northern Territory.  Last time I was there it was late October, the end of the dry season and the ‘build up’ to the wet, …

General election, Labor (sic) loses its majority, the result is a hung parliament, everyone scrabbling around trying to woo the independents, the first Green Party candidate is elected to the lower house – no one is currently governing the country.  Sounds familiar?  Yep, same thing has happened here.  It’s looking like the right wing (‘Liberal’) coalition will be the ones able to make the numbers up, but as yet nothing confirmed.  Australia holds its elections on a Saturday as it …

Yep, plenty of koalas – and also lots of beautiful birds visited us in our treehouse at Wye River – a gorgeous view of the sea through the gum trees – and the lorikeets, parrots, rosellas, kookaburras and cockatoos keeping us company on our deck.  We also saw kangaroos, wallabies and emus on our drive through through the Grampians – i bet they were finding it cold, it got down to 5 degrees. We’re leaving the southern Australian winter for …