It was instilled into me from my Labor-voting dad, a Presbyterian carpenter with a fairly black and white view of life, that “You don’t buy anything until you can ..
Author: Stuart Ballantyne
Active naval architect and vessel operator, Stuart is your first port of call for musings on vessel design and operation, and is a staunch proponent of improved passenger vessel safety.
Like most 15 year olds at a state high school, I had a mix of characteristics, one being a peculiar sense of humour, and another was a disinterest in school and the educa ..
Late in 1969 in Australian ports I was one of the many deck officers in the merchant navy in a vibrant shipping industry dominated by British ships.
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“I found you in the Yellow Pages,” said the Englishman who was on the other end of the phone. “This advert tells me that you are clever with marine designs and surv ..
We could hear the unmuffled exhaust before we saw them come around the corner into Bowling on the Clyde river. It was a white box-shaped converted lifeboat, with a red su ..
Who could believe that 150 years ago, on the mighty Murray River, 2,000 bales of wool were carried on wooden barges with a steam engine driving paddle power equivalent to ..
Unlike most other maritime nations, Australia failed to embrace coastal shipping and we are myopically focused on road transport. A quick look at ABSTATS and you will see ..
Who would believe it took Australians so long to figure out that the carnage from the bushfires was largely the result of Green and Environmental Protection Authority (EP ..
During 1996 at a public meeting at Mt Cosby, the halting of dredging the Brisbane River was concluded.
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