I’ve been to cities that never close down
From New York to Rio and old London town
But no matter how far or how wide I roam
I still call Australia home
I’m always traveling, I love being free
And so I keep leaving the sun and the sea
But my heart lies waiting over the foam
I still call Australia home
All [...]
No, not THE change of life dont get that confused, although, that is looming ever so closer, but change of lifestyle.
My story starts as a suburban girl who wanted to live closer to her horse, so moved 40 minutes south of Sydney to a semi-rural coastal community on the South Coast of New South [...]
THe ANZAC Biscuit
History
During World War 1, the wives, mothers and girlfriends of the Australian soldiers were concerned for the nutritional value of the food being supplied to their men. Here was a problem. Any food they sent to the fighting men had to be carried in the ships of the Merchant Navy. Most of these [...]
My Country
by Dorothea McKellar
(1885–1968)
The love of field and coppice,
Of green and shaded lanes,
Of ordered woods and gardens
Is running in your veins.
Strong love of grey-blue distance,
Brown streams and soft, dim skies -
I know but cannot share it,
My love is otherwise.
I love a sunburnt country,
A land of sweeping plains,
Of ragged mountain ranges,
Of droughts and flooding rains.
I love [...]
Our Landscape
A wide, brown land
Australia is the sixth largest country in the world. It’s about the same size as the 48 mainland states of the USA and 50 per cent larger than Europe, but has the lowest population density in the world - only two people per square kilometre.
Beach paradise
Australia’s coastline stretches almost 50,000 kilometres [...]
The terms sea change (moving to coastal areas) and tree change (moving inland) have become very popular in Australia to describe those from metropolitan cities seeking new life styles and opportunities within Regional Australia. We actually dislike the terms because (in our view) they deliver the wrong messages. However, we have used them because they [...]
We hear that term used a lot, but what does it mean exactly?
When looking over the internet I found that a Lifestyle Property seemed mainly to be a property or piece of real estate, that is set in a rural, coastal or tourist area.
Not one was found in a city setting.
These properties were more often [...]
Or should I choose an agent?
As with most things there are fors and againsts in any decision we try to make.
Who knows and loves a property more than the owner/occupier?
The resident of a house knows fully all the wonderful benefits, points and aspects of their home and property and are able to point them out [...]
Housing affordability in Australia has emerged as a major election issue, after the First Home Buyer Affordability Index, compiled by the Housing Industry Association and the Commonwealth Bank, fell to its lowest level.
Prime Minister Howard says he understands there is a problem with housing affordability.
“You won’t solve it by releasing for housing the high court [...]
AUSTRALIA’S largest wind farm, with the capacity to generate enough electricity for 400,000 homes, could be up and running in far western NSW by the end of 2009.
Hamburg-based Conergy, which currently has about 15 per cent of the solar energy market in Australia, announced its proposal today to install about 500 wind turbines northwest of [...]