My 2014 diary. The diary has a week per page, a photograph of a botanical species, a brief history, and a map of where the species has been collected in Australia.

Diary 2014 by Margaret Donald | Make Your Own Book

On the fundamental ludicrousness of belief in the Judeo-Christian god

A friend of mine continues to attend Atheist/God believer discussions, and went to one in Melbourne not long ago, after which he posted a set of 16 slides from the confrontation of Lawrence Krauss and a so-called theologian. (Sorry, but it is difficult to take someone seriously who betrays such a fundamental lack of reasoning capacity...) One excellent Krauss slide was the following https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10200990753585025&set=a.10200990712543999.1073741839.1052367228&type=3&theater

While probably the most ridiculous one from the other bloke (theologian) was this one: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10200990717944134&set=a.10200990712543999.1073741839.1052367228&type=3&theater

Russell's full post plus the full set of slides may be found at https://www.facebook.com/russell.varley/media_set?set=a.10200990712543999.1073741839.1052367228&type=1

International Women's Day, March 8

Voting Day WA - cupcakes (Photograph by Nicole)

Nicole's contribution to International Women's Day, March 8. And note that the women of Australia won the right to vote and to stand for Federal Parliament in 1902.. NZ might have been ahead of us with the vote, but not with the right to stand (which followed on the women of South Australia getting both the vote and the right to stand in 1894 - by virtue of a bloody minded amendment in the upper house by which the proposers hoped to sink both possibilities....)

However, the women of WA and of SA had the right to vote for federal parliaments from day one (January 1, 1901) of the Commonwealth of Australia, since they already had the vote in WA & SA. http://www.slsa.sa.gov.au/women_and_politics/suffr4.htm