John Skinner
Press Service International
John Skinner served as an infantry soldier in Vietnam then the Tasmanian Police before taking up the position of CEO of the Australian Rough Riders Association (professional rodeo based in Warwick Qld). Before retirement to his small farm, he was a photo-journalist for 25 years. He is married with 3 children and 7 grandchildren.
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Mistakes
You often see it in television cop shows where one small mistake brings a criminal undone.
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Isaiah, pronounced Ishaiah
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Cornwall Mine Miracle
Cornwall is a small, strangely-quaint coal mining town in the Fingal Valley, North-East Tasmania, not far from Avoca.
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Did it start with women’s Liberation?
When Germaine Greer became the leading light for Women’s Liberation all those years ago, I wonder if she would have foreseen the long-term consequences.
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Wombat shooting farm
We were driving from Hobart to Queenstown when we met a wombat (Vombatus ursinus) crossing the road at night.
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Koalas only just survived extinction thanks to Calvin Coolidge
American President Calvin Coolidge probably saved the koala from extinction after almost eight million were killed for their pelts between 1888 and 1927.
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“Curse God and Die”
Job’s wife said, “Curse God and die.” (Job 2:9)
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Women’s sporting bodies excluding men identifying as women
Once you start ‘tinkering’ with God’s law, inequality starts to sneak in from the back door.
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Kangaroos
On the ‘prickle farm’ here, we are not short of a few kangaroos.
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Fire and New Growth
Dry weather doesn’t usually lead to more bushfires but it does increase the size, ferocity and danger of the fires we do have.