New therapy could stem death rate from prostate cancer
The Advertiser today ran a good news story that new therapy could beat the most resistant prostate cancer. The new treatment, which acts on the immune system, achieved almost complete remission in...
View ArticleBastille Day big success despite drama
This year’s Bastille Day breakfast organised by L’Agence Consulaire de France d’Adelaide had an unexpected element of drama. The volcanic eruption in Bali had stranded Adelaide’s honorary French...
View ArticleA “Sparkie” life of family and faith for Frank
My father Frank Buxton, who died on October 1, aged 96, was a cheerful character whose sense of humour reflected a certain Britishness. He was born in Sheffield, England, on October 22, 1918,...
View ArticleMother koala and baby make a house call
The other night, at the height of a vicious storm, I had startling house visitors. I took this photograph of a mother koala and her baby terrified by the storm and trying to get into the house....
View ArticleTerrorists take terrible human toll in Paris
Paris, the City of Light, has been plunged into darkness, fear and grief by a series of terrorist attacks by gunmen and suicide bombers, which have left 129 dead and 352 injured – 99 critically. In...
View ArticlePretty Pink makes perfect pad for Gurley Brown
The plush pink pad of renowned Cosmopolitan magazine editor, Helen Gurley Brown, who died three years ago, is up for grabs in New York. The American author, editor and businesswoman, who was 90 when...
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