Reading Time: < 1 minutes Only 2 incumbent Australian Prime Ministers have lost their seats in an election. The first was Stanley Bruce in October 1929 and the second was the second longest serving Prime Minister John Howard (pictured) in December 2007. Both lost their seats on an industrial relations platform. To be able to be Prime Minister a person …
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Reading Time: < 1 minutes The only Australian Prime Minister to leave office at a time of his or her own choosing was Robert (Bob) Gordon Menzies, who retired 26th January 1966 after serving a combined total of 18 years over 2 terms. All others were either removed by a general election, their party replaced them or they died in …
Reading Time: 2 minutes Have you ever looked at a chef and asked this question? Why are chefs hats shaped the way they are? Is it for style, comfort or tradition? I mean, they really do look quite ridiculous, so why wear them? Well when digging into this question we discovered several possible answers. I’s really rather difficult to …
Reading Time: 2 minutes The average medieval life expectancy for a peasant was only a mere 35 years of age. Wow, like that really sucks, right? That’s hardly enough time to accomplish everything that you wanted to in life. But it’s more complicated than being of old age at 35, far more complicated. So what made the average medieval …
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Reading Time: 2 minutes There is a species of giant dragonfly in Australia that may surprise many readers, mainly due to its imposing size. This dragon fly is one of the largest in the world, dwarfing many other insect species. They inhabit the east coast of the island nation, spanning from the state of Victoria in the south up to …
Reading Time: 2 minutes When it comes to evolution for some people the jury is still out. But if you look at the science, evolution does exist. In fact, even the Catholic Church has admitted that evolution does happen. Their only dispute is that humans didn’t evolve from another species. But that’s an argument for another day. Today we …
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Reading Time: 2 minutes The Iranian hostage crisis of 1979 was one of the biggest news items of that year. Lasting until January 20, 1981, it set the scene for diplomatic relations between Iran and the US for the coming decades. You could hardly argue that the Iranian hostage crisis was the best thing that could ever have happened …
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