it’s a bit cringe to have a website with your name in the URL, eh?

When we left Australia we weren’t really expecting to go to Phuket again - after all, we have been there twice before. However, as is the nature of make-it-up-as-you-go-travel - at some stage you have...

Phi Phi is the island so nice they named it twice.

No, it’s not a typo. There is no missing ‘w’.

Ko Lipe is a small and cute island in the most south-west corner of Thailand. We arrived by ferry from the most north-west corner of Malaysia.

Today’s not-very-good travel blog reflects on our quick trip to Langkawi - it’s a lovely little island in the most north-west corner of Malaysia.

Online version of a presentation at the Cairns Hospital Nursing & Midwifery Grand Rounds on 8 May 2024.“Nurses, Midwives and The Empathy Trap (and making sel...

You might think being a pedestrian in a compact, very walkable, regional city would be easy (and it is), but many people don’t follow the unwritten rules. So, for the benefit of those who do know the ...

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Nurses and midwives are most appreciated when people recognise the empathy which has been described as ‘inherently a function of our professions’ (Lloyd, 2022). It is difficult to imagine anyone being...

ICYMI: there has been a recent update to COVID-19 vaccine advice and recommendations - see www.health.gov.au for the deets.

Five facts that prove that curlews are weirdos:

Data is fun, right?

Have a squiz at this photo taken today looking out from Oak & Vine to the Cairns shipping channel:

Back in ye olde days, when Blogs were just a pup and before Facebook, Twitter, Instagram et al were invented, if you wanted to share a story you had to use pen and paper and photos printed via the loc...

There has been so much waffle and frogshit spouted about the upcoming referendum, keeping sight of the actual question has become a task in itself. So, as a reminder, here is the actual question we wi...

On 7 September my colleague Jelena Botha and I will present a short session at the CHHHS Eating Disorder Forum.

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Can you retrieve any conscious memories from before you turned three years old? I can’t. That why I find the photo below so enchanting. The photo is from another era. It is 60 years old, but it look...

When booking a domestic flight recently I had a moment of inspiration. Perhaps the Holy Spirit* moved me. Maybe I was just hungry when I was on the airline’s website. I don’t know why I did what I...

In 1903 - just 120 years ago - a bank manager confidently advised Henry Ford’s lawyer that, “The horse is here to stay, but the automobile is only a novelty - a fad“ [source]. A healthy dose of ...

On Monday 24 July at The Tanks (the best venue in Cairns, right?) the Pub Choir crew coached a few hundred of us to sing Toto’s ‘Africa’ in three part harmony.

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