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TAYLOR, Bill

Aug 15, 2024 | *, *Featured books, *listed, Australian, Comedy \ Humour Fiction, Fiction \ Novel, South Australia, Travel \ Tourism \ Adventure

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Driver’s Holiday

Entertaining, fun and light hearted

Tourism in Bali in the 70s was in its infancy as was Albert Driver’s employment as a tour leader.

After a confidence boost stemming from his time with lovely Bethleen Steele, and the help of Sudi (his beautiful Balinese assistant), Albert led a motley group of Australian salesman on a life-changing tour.

 

A beautiful but mysterious island, the group had to overcome disease, unhappy deities and bursts of undisciplined behaviour from some members to finish the tour.

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About the Author

 

Bill Taylor has lived most of his life in South Australia, either in Adelaide or on Kangaroo Island. He has also spent extended times away from Australia, including in France, where this tale was first written, and in Indonesia, particularly Bali, the location of most of the action.

He first went to Bali when tourists were a novelty and children would line up to cheer motor cyclists passing through their village. Certainly not the case now. He practised as a lawyer for much of his adult life and is now retired.

He has been married for more than fifty years to Caroline, who surely must be a saint. They have two adult children and five grandchildren.

STEVENS, Kym

Aug 14, 2024 | *, *Featured books, *listed, Adelaide, Alternative Spirituality, Miscellaneous, Philosophy, Self-help \ Personal Development, South Australia

Kym Stevens Intentional Intuition
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Intentional Intuition

 

Awareness is another way of knowing

VALE   |  Kym Stevens  | 1954 – 2024

About 12 years ago I saw a need for information regarding knowing amongst the community.

 
I wanted to keep spiritual learning, simple, heartfelt, loving, and practical. It started as a series of 33 flash cards.
 
I scrapped that format recently realising that just opening a page to a step and reading was how I had been reading for about 9 years!
 
I became distracted by life and other practicalities which put the book and its development on hold (I believe I was waiting for world events to rekindle the book’s purpose).
 
So here it is!
Kym Stevens, July 2024
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About the Author

Kym was a remarkable person who touched the lives of everyone he met and had an extraordinary impact on those around him. He was a source of strength and inspiration, always ready to offer support and guidance. Kym’s legacy is one of love and unwavering kindness to his family and friends.

Professionally, Kym had a varied work life, which really allowed him to gain experiences across fields that later helped him help others in so many ways. Importantly, it wasn’t his career that defined Kym. He was a devoted family member, a life partner with Christine, a father, and a friend. His generosity and compassion were evident in everything he did.

Kym grew up between Glenelg and the farm at Williams Town with his father, Rex, and Mother, Joyce. He would tell stories about life on the farm, setting rabbit traps, and working with his dog.

One of Kym’s proudest recent achievements was writing his books on intuition and soul mates. The first has now been published – details can be found on this page. The latter is being helped by family toward completion sometime in 2024.

These books combine his various lived experiences and some traditional science understandings, which are underpinned and elevated by spiritual guidance and interpretations of life. They aim to help people find their way. Kym considered these books to be part of the legacy he wanted to leave with all of us, and we are all the better for him doing so.

 

WATSON, Michael

Aug 7, 2024 | *, *Featured books, *listed, Australian, Melbourne, Poetry, Victoria

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WITHOUT ANGELS

 

prose and poems

Without Angels is a series of small prose pieces written over the years since retiring in 1996.
It covers personal memories and observations of daily life.

About the Author

Michael Watson was born in 1942 in Melbourne.
After dropping out of High School he spent some years in farms around Victoria and New South Wales as a Jackeroo before returning to study at the age of 20. He completed a first class honours degree in Science at Monash University and went on to study for an MA at Princeton, New Jersey in 1967. The he met Nadine in 1969, whom he married in 1970. They have two children, Anne and David, and five grandchildren, Doug, Jack, Charlie, Juliette and Olivier.

WINTHROP, Ronald P

Aug 5, 2024 | *, *Featured books, *listed, Australian, Business, Reference, Social Sciences \ Politics \ Government, Victoria

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How the Rich get richer while the Poor stay poor

 

A philosophical deconstruction of the Australian taxation system and its principles

Our Australian taxation system is an impressive clockwork-like machine with its origins in pre-Victorian times; designed on pre-Victorian principles and with pre-Victorian efficiency. Its workings today, even though falling far short of what is needed in this electronic age, are kept in working order at great expense to the Australian Community.

The author for 34 years was just a worker in Maintenance tasked with keeping everything running as previously. All his pleadings for updating and improving existing plant and functions were met with a glazed silence and just ignored. Instead he made notes of his observations and described in detail the issues causing concern and how a particular function might be made to work more efficiently or, in many cases, retired from service.

This book might easily be taken for a report by a Royal Commission set up for the purpose of looking into and reporting on its inequity, its inefficiency and its complexity. But such Royal Commissions and enquires were held and even examined the issues just mentioned but were unable to formulate the findings and recommendations our author makes in this book.

PEDRANA, Michael

Aug 5, 2024 | *, *Featured books, *listed, Australian, Poetry, Western Australia

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black sheep poems

dear reader,

we are strangers you and i me a farmer of words all tangled from the violent paddock and criminal path of my broken existence and you searching for the escape only poems can give in between the humdrum and echo of your routine life i pity you as i pity me we never asked for words to undo this noose where we search for meanings to carry us from time i give to you the untamed weather inside the painted word drawings of my heart and you opening up this book allow me to exist

dear reader

i thank you for that for here i ask you to read this unrehearsed broken tune of poems from your heart (where true thoughts are made) while casting your anchor outside the deaf and desolate unreachable sharpness that limps your routine i do not require your like or dislike of my melted tune
here is no audience i seek dear reader only hands to open the vault of this book where now i breathe dear reader we are strangers you and i.

About the Author

At 12 Mike Pedrana wanted to be a poet. ‘It’s not just the poetry but the poets themselves I could relate to. The more I read about them, their genius, their madness, their poverty, their escapisms, their exile, and their suicides, the more I knew I was one.

Anyone can write a poem. But not everyone is a Poet’. (Phone Interview | Roebourne Prison 1991)

BENNETT, Jeannie

Jul 29, 2024 | *, *Featured books, *listed, Biography, Northern Territory

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Fellowship, Friendship and Fun

 

The Charles Darwin Probus Club Member Biographies

Embark on a captivating journey into the lives of the Charles Darwin Probus club members with Fellowship, Friendship, and Fun.

Discover the remarkable interconnectedness of these diverse individuals as their paths intersect across various stages of life, from shared experiences in the Northern Territory to common pursuits in employment and business ventures.

Nurses, educators, engineers, administrators, and Defence personnel– the members represent a tapestry of backgrounds and occupations that unite and enrich this vibrant community.

Explore fi rsthand accounts that enrich historical narratives, revealing the resilience, camaraderie, and joy that defi ne their collective narrative.