Barack Obama will become America’s first black president after emerging triumphant from one of the most talked about elections I know of. Obama made his vistory speech in front of 70,000 people at Grant Park in Chicago – and hundreds of thousands more outside – as TV networks simultaneously declared him the winner at…
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2008 Melbourne Cup is On
At 4pm today New Zealand time work comes to a crash halt, the projector gets switched on, the beer gets cracked open and preparations for getting the mind in the right place for this year’s Melbourne Cup begin. The Melbourne Cup Day almost stops Melbourne and practically halts the rest of Australia and New Zealand….
Rent or Buy – What are the people saying?
This evening I am just relaxing after a fantastic day in the sun down here in Sunny Christchurch. I cought up with a good friend of mine Brendan Burns who is running for the Labour Candidate Seat in the 2008 election for Christchurch Central. It was a cracker day and I think most of New…