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Carnival of Australia

Posted on December 5, 2007 - Filed Under General

Welcome to the December 5, 2007 edition of Carnival of Australia.

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I am very pleased to be your gracious hostess for this addition of the Carnival of Australia..it is such a pleasure to be part of a carnival with so many talented Australians all in the same place at the same time!

Albert Foong presents Love and Aloneness - Unravelling the ego and pride posted at Urban Monk.

Micellaneous Mum presents The Great Christmas Card Challenge - Redux posted at Miscellaneous Adventures of an Aussie Mum, saying, “Very possibly your last chance to get an ecard from Misc. Mum - as well as helping someone less foruntate. Why wouldn’t you?”

Patric presents On the first day of Christmas... posted at Mad goat Lady

Kirky a Koori in Parkes. Oz. presents Stitch Markers posted at Kirkys Krafts & Chit Chat.

Leigh presents 12 days of Christmas giveaway posted at All for Women.

Simone presents Creating a Comfort Zone : The Art of Putting Others At Ease, posted at Outfit Inspirations.

Animals

OzWildlife presents Nocturnal Mammal Photography: White-eyes posted at OzWildlife Nature.

Business

D Robinson presents Sally Healey: helping women to achieve their dreams posted at Australian Women Online, saying, “Women like Sally Healey are as close as we’re ever going to get to a fairy god-mother in the real world. Sally has built a career out of making women’s wishes come true and she does it with compassion and enthusiasm.”

Gavin R. Putland presents Current account deficit demands tax shift posted at Gavonomics.

Culture

Dr Martin W. Russell presents Are You Going Wrong Right? posted at Dr Martin W. Russell.

Current Affairs

Barry Pittard presents Bernie Banton Case. Mega Poor Can Fight Mega Rich posted at Call For Media and Government Investigation of Sathya Sai Baba, India’s Most Famous Guru.

cerebralmum presents The media and Everyman Joe… posted at The Cerebral Mum, saying, “When NOT to speak about current affairs.”

Barry Pittard presents Exposure of Sathya Sai Baba. Media Source List. Call For Media and Government Investigation posted at Call For Media and Government Investigation of Sathya Sai Baba, India’s Most Famous Guru.

Gavin R. Putland presents Submission to Review of State Taxation (NSW) posted at /etc/cron.whenever/.

Environment

Rod presents The Looming Energy Crisis posted at Alternative Fuels.

Family

Megan over at Imaginif has been busy hosting the Carnival of family life in Australia
What a welcome and sunny reprieve for all those Christmas shoppers walking around in the cold northern hemisphere at the moment…[Megan breaks into song, “Frosty the snowman,” immediately followed by “Six white boomers.”]

Sue from Spasmodic Dysphonia has been loving her pets. In Dystonia and Pet Ownership: An unorthodox inclusion to treatment plans, Sue advocates for including a pet for a quicker recovery.

Lightening presents The Spirit of Christmas posted at Lightening’s thoughts, musings and happenings, saying, “I’ve never done this before so please HELP if I’m not doing it right. Wasn’t sure if this article was appropriate or where to put it in terms of category. I had some good feedback from it so wanted to share (if it fits).”

Music

Megt presents I Survived! posted at Dipping into the Blogpond, saying, “An ode to Christmas shopping to the tune of “I will survive”"

Technology

mountainmama presents 10 Great Time-Wasters posted at Careful What You Wish For…, saying, “Confessions of a non-techie mama-geek…the things that steal the time I haven’t got to spare!?!”

Travel

Des Walsh presents Confessions of a Travelling Blogger Who Blogged Too Little and Infrequently posted at Thinking Home Business, saying, “After a lot of travelling in the past couple of months and frankly not a lot of blogging in that time, I’m still finding it a challenge to get back into a rhythm of regular posting. I seriously doubt I’m the only blogger who has ever experienced this particular manifestation of blogger’s block. But it is ironic, or even reprehensible (if I wanted to give myself a really hard time, which I don’t) to reflect that my backsliding has been occasioned by my flying around the world to tell people about blogging and other aspects of social media”

Walkabout

Alex Garcia presents North Bank a glimpse of the future posted at Life in Brisbane - Queensland - Australia, saying, “Construction on Brisbane’s $1.7 billion North Bank will start by the middle of next year, Premier Anna Bligh said today. The revised proposal was unveiled today by Ms Bligh and Multiplex’s Shane Bulloch five years and a couple of re-designs after it was first mooted. The new vision is more river- and people-friendly, with reduced building heights and a public boardwalk on the waterfront.”

jen presents Semantically driven: blogging about blogging, parenting and living in Australia. » Christmas presents posted at Semantically driven, saying, “Do you find Christmas shopping hard? You’re not alone.”

That concludes this edition. Submit your blog article to the next edition of carnival of australia using our carnival submission form. Past posts and future hosts can be found on our blog carnival index page.

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Comments

7 Responses to “Carnival of Australia”

  1. Barbara on December 5th, 2007 7:16 am

    Oh boo - I missed out. Looks like a great list of blogs though - will enjoy visiting them :)

  2. Megan over at Imaginif on December 5th, 2007 8:39 am

    Hey MGL
    thanks so much for hosting. I’ll get to and read, comment and stumble all the posts.
    Everyone get your posts in for next fortnight over at Colin’s Adelaide Green Porridge Cafe. Do it now before you get into Christmas mode.

  3. Kirky on December 6th, 2007 12:29 pm

    YEP both ME Links work.

    Soundin like Elvis she sayz THANK U very Much.

    Luv da Name: MAD GOAT LADY…

    :-)

  4. Colin Campbell on December 6th, 2007 1:34 pm

    Welcome everyone. Looking forward to receiving your non Christmas Posts. Yes I am a bit Ba Humbug at this time of year. Megan suggested Welcome to the Easter Egg Hunt as a theme. Funny. Good work Mad Goat Lady. Great Blog Name.

  5. babyamore2 on December 6th, 2007 11:39 pm

    I will have to try to get a post in the next carnival I have enjoyed reading many of them - I am getting an idea of what to do now.

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