Imaginif

 Welcome to the January 30, 2008 edition of our
Australia Day
fair dinkum Carnival of Australia.

 

Australia Day is a public holiday Down Under. We Aussie bloggers must have taken the day off to write some bonza posts because this Australia Day edition of the Carnival of Australia is chockers with new mates. Welcome to you all. It has been lovely getting to know some of you over at the new beaut Aussie Bloggers forum and blog.

I always begin my hosted Carnivals with a post from the previous host. This is my mark of mateship and sharing of the Aussie values of inclusion and  respect. So, here’s to Sue, cheers: Are you intel(ligent) enough to know what Qassia is? I wasn’t but thank goodness I know people who are! The wonderful Sue over at Blogging Sueblimely provides us a delightful tutorial of technological explanations around, What is Qassia.

Let’s begin so we can end (he he, that’s my Irish ancestry coming through there) - we are happy little Vegemites because we blog about all manner of things:

Des Walsh presents A Forum for Aussie Bloggers and Friends posted at deswalsh.com, saying, “On Australia Day I reflected on the value to me and others of online forums such as the new Aussie Bloggers Forum. i also wrote another post wishing my Indian friends a happy Republic Day (same day).”

Lightening presents Australia Day Giveaway posted at Lightening Online. If you have kids, or you like freebies, have a squiz at this Aussie giveaway.

Colin Campbell presents At the Cricket posted at Adelaide Green Porridge Cafe, saying, “Australia Day Test Match Day One, some photographs and some thoughts.”

Mad goat lady presents I am proud to be an Australian. posted at Mad Goat Lady.

Chris presents My favorite new Commercial …Commonwealth Bank: Anthem posted at DropKick MonKey.

Duncan Macleod presents Bonds Wear Australia posted at Duncan’s Print, saying, “An advertising campaign for the Bonds Chesty singlet uses photographs of Australians from many walks of life. The campaign encourages Australians to ‘Wear Australia’ on Australia Day, and donate funds to life saving skills in primary schools.” An excellent initiative. I wore Australian, did you?

Suzie Cheel presents Aussie Bloggers Celebrate posted at The Abundance Highway, saying, “A good Aussie picnic and BBQ by the beach”

Samuel Bryson presents Kangaroo Meat – Good For You AND the Environment: posted at Total Wellbeing.

Leigh (from Imaginif’s sistership site) presents “But what can I do?” - ten ways you can support conservation efforts in your local area posted by Aussie blogger Kay over at All for Women. Who loves toads? Not me!

Megt presents Aussie Burgers posted at Dipping into the Blogpond, saying, “We ate these Australia shaped burgers!” lol, oh Meg, when I was cooking the leg of lamb I was wishing I’d gone for the Aussie burgers. How hot is it to cook a roast?????!!!! I must have the surf in my head. Who ate Tasmania?

Michelle Sweeney presents You Know You’re Living in Australia… posted at Tonic Gifts.

Micellaneous Mum presents Introducing the new members of our family. All 1500-odd of them posted at Miscellaneous Adventures of an Aussie Mum, saying, “Proving worm farming is sexy….well, interesting……well…something!” Don’t worm your way out of reading this post. Misc Mum is hilarious. I love her.

Kathie Thomas presents Garden growing posted at Kathies Garden.

Riayn presents The Importance of Desexing Your Pet posted at Petulance, saying, “An article about desexing that explains what the surgery involves and the health and behavioural benefits to your pets”

Gavin R. Putland presents Right and wrong ways to abolish taxation posted at /etc/cron.whenever/.

Aussie Investor presents ASX Website - A Wealth Of Free Information posted at Australian Investing, saying, “If you’re looking to invest in Australia, either as a local or from overseas, the ASX website is a great place to start. This article looks at some of the things you will find on the ASX website.”

Sue (aka Megan’s mother) presents Amazing endurance! posted at Spasmodic Dysphonia, saying, “Men survive lightning strike - who said lightning doesn’t strike twice!”

Peter Jones presents Native Title Claims and Australian Indigenous Aboriginal People posted at Indigenous Issues Today. Peter, very interesting and highly pertinent on Australia Day. Many Aussies forget our black Australian history and what white settlement did to Indigenous people. Thanks for joining our Carnival.

Carole Fogarty presents Detox your money worries: Free wealthy habits calendar: posted at THE HEALTHY LIVING LOUNGE, saying, “The free wealthy habits calendar is created by fellow Aussie, Fionna and its all about changing old expensive habits for smarter, cheaper and greener ones one small habit at a time. Lots of great ideas and tools including the save-o-meter to keep track of your savings.” Wonderful idea and I’ll be playing with this. Thanks Carole.

Gillian Polack presents Food History posted at Gillian Polack. Welcome Dr Gillian. Loved your blog.

Samuel Bryson presents The Philosophy of Happiness – Accepting Yourself posted at Total Wellbeing.

D Robinson presents Sign the Petition to ‘Stop Stoning Forever’ in Iran posted at Australian Women Online.

Craig Harper presents Moving Beyond Instant Gratification. posted at Motivation - Renovate your life with Craig, saying, “Have you ever witnessed someone who is obese, depressed about their lack of health and fitness, embarrassed by their appearance and ‘allegedly’ desperate to lose weight, stuff themselves with junk food on a regular basis?”

Keran from Birdwing Therapies gives us Depression and Mental Health. Well, she doesn’t give us depression…she presents an article on Depression and mental health! Thanks Keran. Do you also know about the Carnival of Depression and Mental Health Down Under. May be another place to get your posts into.

Evan from Holistic Health gives us a much needed Aussie warning: Four Simple, Little Things to do for Big Health Benefits. Thanks Evan. My blood pressure is high and only has been since I’ve been blogging….umm, interesting (I’m not getting enough exercise). Take note all you Norm and Nancies (far out, I’m really showing my age now - Duncan McLeod, how old is the Norm campaign?) in couch land.

Just in case there’s anyone in Australia that doesn’t know my most excellent news yet: I AM ABOUT TO BECOME A GRANDMOTHER. Yip Yah! The other amazing announcement that All for Women and Imaginif would like to share with our Aussie mates is:

1. we have formed a sistership
2. our forums have merged
3. our first joint project is the Teddy Tour: a moving display of teddy bears, each representing, and wearing a story tag from, a person affected by child sexual abuse.

That concludes this Australia Day edition of the Carnival of Australia.

I’m going back to stumble all of your articles. Thanks so much for carnivalling with us.

Submit your blog article to the next edition of Carnival of Australia using our carnival submission form. Past posts and future hosts can be found on our blog carnival index page. Next fortnight we’re back with Colin in Adelaide and eating Green porridge at his home cafe.

Hoo roo cockatoo!

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