It’s only been a few weeks since my partner’s beloved grandmother passed away.
She’d been known to all as “Granny” for 50 years and had reached the ripe old age of 108 with her faculties still totally intact.
Born in 1902 her life had spanned the terms of every Australian… Read More »
Ferrari Mondial Quattrovalvole
It’s been more than a quarter of a century since I was 25 years old and some of the memories of being that age are now starting to fade.
I do recall though that at 25 I’d survived my intern year and done my first appendicectomy.
As we all know 48 hours is a long time in politics and I found this out the hard way last month when I took a punt and forwarded my article on the Small Business Tax Break for publication.
Even though I had observed that Treasury were revising estimates faster… Read More »
At this time of the year many doctors are putting their financial figures together, but most of us won’t want to look at how much less we have in the superannuation account.
In a previous article we calculated that the fastest depreciating car sold in Australia (the Renault Laguna) was… Read More »
In 2008 we officially became the fattest nation on Earth so we all know that we’re in the midst of an obesity epidemic and that its onset seems to have run parallel to our fascination with televised sport, game consoles and fast food.
Even the motoring world has had to adapt… Read More »
Holden V8 Supercar
After missing out on the Top Gear hosting job last year I thought I’d do some more work on my resume.
You see they did specify in the application forms that preference would be given to applicants with “motor racing experience” and I don’t think that they… Read More »
Renault Laguna Hatch 2.0 dCi Privelege
Sharing the same initials as a religious icon, Jeremy Clarkson of Top Gear fame regards himself as a motoring messiah.
But as well as sprouting wisdom from the mount about cars and lorry drivers, he’s also just invented a new financial indicator which closely… Read More »
Ford Model T
2008 looks like being a memorable year for many reasons.
For starters it’s the year that most of my colleagues decided to postpone their retirement because of the disastrous stock market crash.
Volkswagen Tiguan 103TDI
In 1965 Gordon E Moore wrote a paper called “Cramming more components onto integrated circuits” in the publication “Electronics Magazine”.
Moore was a co-founder of Intel Corporation and he hypothesized that the number of transistors on integrated circuits would keep doubling every two years.
On budget
Holden Kingswood
1969 HT Kingswood
Regular readers of this column know that I always do my best to steer clear of politics.
After all this is the “motoring column” and I’m not Andrew Bolt.
But it’s been difficult since the Federal Budget to think about… Read More »