Another old-time ALP leaves the stage

Former Labor deputy prime minister Lionel Bowen has died in his Sydney home at the age of 89. Mr Bowen was deputy leader alongside Bob Hawke from 1983 to 1990.

Budget surplus - Gillard on Sunday April 1

Ms Gillard on Sunday said returning the budget to surplus was an economic imperative.

Earth Hour - NK joins Sydney

Exclusive photo: QLD ALP new party room

Queensland state ALP Parliament new party room made ready for first post-election meeting.

Hilda Woodward - piano and good sticky music

Single word can trap songs in our heads
The well-known phenomenon where memorable tunes appear as if at random in our heads is variously referred to as stuck-song syndrome, sticky music and earworm.
Lieutenant Pigeon
Members
Robert Woodward - keyboards
Hilda Woodward - piano
Stephen Johnson - bass guitar
Nigel Fletcher - drums

Hilda Woodward - piano


Lieutenant Pigeon - Mouldy Old Dough (HQ) Christmas TOTP '72 - YouTube



Hilda Woodward sadly died on Monday 22nd February 1999 aged 85, but all the other musicians mentioned in the story are happily still alive and well in January 2000!

West Sydney flood and Bob Carr

And the new foreign minister did not want another Sydney dam spoiling his bushwalking.

Dam spill alerts Sydney residents

As KPMG Partner Bernard Salt said 'But the “let’s not talk about the ‘d’ word” spin was nevertheless set early in Premier Carr’s foreword to the strategy: “Building a twelfth dam, as some have suggested, would be an expensive, ineffective response—it would take years to build and even longer to fill, not to mention the damage done to surrounding farmland and natural areas.” -Meeting the challenges: Securing Sydney’s water future 2004 page one

August 1995: The Carr Government rejects the proposed mitigation project and instructs Sydney Water to commence planning for an auxiliary spillway to safeguard the dam without increasing storage capacity.
Bob Carr reflected on the late Milo’s [Dunphy] view that bushwalking, even for those who travelled alone, could never be a solitary experience when we knew that countless others, now and in the future, could share the same pleasure and experience the same sights and sounds of the wild.