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Andrew's Travel blog: Five Days in North Korea
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Information on Andrew's new book A Life Half Lived. Friday, 15 February 2013. Five Days in North Korea. Additional photos on my North Korea Gallery link here. The video of the journey is at the bottom of the blog. Expecting a grilling at immigration, I was surprised how quickly a tall, slim, rather attractive border guard stamped my visa. No questions asked – literally. I really wanted her to ask something. Her eyes wanted me to start up a conversation – or so I told myself. 8217; I wondered? Surprised, ...
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Andrew's Travel blog: September 2012
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Information on Andrew's new book A Life Half Lived. Saturday, 1 September 2012. The lead up to coming to Mongolia, and an introduction to Mongolia. Episode 28, New Dawn.mpg. Episode 15, Mogolia. The late 1980s and early 1990s saw a number of events that put paid to that thinking. Back in the 1980s resource companies , including ours, would operate under strong legal licenses to operate. Issues such as equitable spending of government tax and royalty revenues, ethnic tensions from mixed ethnicity ...Did n...
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Future Australia: December 2013
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In the time of paucity in public debate, we all need avenues to engage and lift the debate. I hope you can join the discussion. Information on Andrew's new book A Life Half Lived. Saturday, 7 December 2013. Australia: withdraw or not withdraw from the Refugee Convention? This post originally appeared on the New Daily here. Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott’s recent hypothecation that Australia may withdraw from the Refugee Convention (see here. That having been said no Convnetion is perfect and inter...
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Future Australia: August 2012
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In the time of paucity in public debate, we all need avenues to engage and lift the debate. I hope you can join the discussion. Information on Andrew's new book A Life Half Lived. Saturday, 18 August 2012. Are Abbott and Howard just like Milosevic? The Serbs commemorate not only the location, but also the battle, which is considered the founding of nationhood for the Serbs, much in the way the Australians look to a defeat by the Turks in Gallipoli in 1915 to define Australia’s national character. Not yet...
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Future Australia: June 2012
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In the time of paucity in public debate, we all need avenues to engage and lift the debate. I hope you can join the discussion. Information on Andrew's new book A Life Half Lived. Saturday, 23 June 2012. Why Go it Alone in Community Development? For more information about the author, see. To email Andrew, click. To see Andrew's speaking videos on these topics, click. This blog was first published at the Harvard Business Review on June 13, 2012,. Building on a Ted Talk I gave here:. Presumably it would se...
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Andrew's Travel blog: May 2013
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Information on Andrew's new book A Life Half Lived. Wednesday, 29 May 2013. How does American Airlines handle theft? So American Airlines has transferred the cost of the items I claimed. Well done American Airlines - fair dues for handling a difficult situation very well. This contrasts with Gulf Air. Around 2006 I had items stolen from Gulf Air. They denied any responsibility and wouldn't even let me submit a claim. I swore never to fly Gulf Air again and never have - and you know I fly often. Very impr...
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Andrew's Travel blog: November 2013
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Information on Andrew's new book A Life Half Lived. Sunday, 24 November 2013. A Church Where God Does Not Exist. Extract from A Life Half Lived, sharing my visit to Ntarama Church in 1998. Walking into Ntarama church is confronting. It is the place that haunts my soul and where I moved from agnostic to atheist with a positive disbelief in God. While Dallaire said; “I know God exists as in Rwanda I came face to face wit. More from 'A Life Half Lived" by New Holland Press here. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).
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Andrew's Travel blog: November 2012
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Information on Andrew's new book A Life Half Lived. Friday, 30 November 2012. Mongolia is so dry that the clear sunny skies will hide the minus 20 or below temperatures. The snow is so dry that it kicks up like dust and will not stick to form a ball, let alone a snow man. Yet, on the back of a horse on the wild plains, it is still, despite the cold, a fun place to be! Thursday, 29 November 2012. You do realise its only Autumn, don't you? Sunday, 18 November 2012. A weekend in Siberia. A weekend in Siberia.
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Andrew's Travel blog: February 2013
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Information on Andrew's new book A Life Half Lived. Friday, 15 February 2013. Five Days in North Korea. Additional photos on my North Korea Gallery link here. The video of the journey is at the bottom of the blog. Expecting a grilling at immigration, I was surprised how quickly a tall, slim, rather attractive border guard stamped my visa. No questions asked – literally. I really wanted her to ask something. Her eyes wanted me to start up a conversation – or so I told myself. 8217; I wondered? Surprised, ...