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flickr Noisy Miner in Honey Gem Grevillea

Photo uploaded to Flickr by Ross_M.

flickr Visitor to our garden - Green Tree Snake

I think this pretty little snake is a green tree snake. He/she very patiently posed in our seaside rosemary bush for a bunch of photos. Best viewed Large Photo uploaded to Flickr by Ross_M.

flickr Two's company for Fairy Wrens

Photo uploaded to Flickr by Ross_M.

Frog party at Stratford Street

Frogs at a door in Stratford St. Moggill, 2005

Reindeer spotted munching garden daylilies!

Reindeer taking R&R in Moggill after a long Christmas shift - developing a taste for the Teakle daylilies. 30/12/2008

Action in my Possum Box in Moggill

I put up the possum box on Saturday June 20th 2009. I'd blocked up the hole in the roof where the possum was getting in.

I put an apple in the possum box. Apparently possums can smell an apple from miles away.

Next morning the box was full of possum!

We've named her Pamela. (How do you tell the gender of a possum?)

Reindeer sighted in Moggill garden 30/12/08

Apparantly wild but tame reindeer signted from 7-7:30am Camellia Lane/Witty Rd. Moggill on Dec 30th 2008

Santa's reindeer holidaying in Moggill

Apparantly tame but wild deer sighted in Moggill Camellia Lane, Witty Road area 7-7:30am 30th December 2008

Frog Friends

I wonder what the frog will do next? Over the holidays I am sure some creative young people will add to his adventure!!

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My website is: http://ablydesign.com.au

Frog_4

Oh wells, who is out there to play with, hum bit dark ... to be continued

frog_2

Waiting waiting, and still they work on their computers ...

Frog on travel

Hmmm, hows the public transport around here....

Frog_1

A friend visited the other night and sat with us on the computer ....

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Greens in Moggill

I'm Philip Machanick, and I'm your Greens candidate in the next state election.

I don't believe people choose to live in the outer suburbs because they like traffic, but because they like the semi-rural life and the small-town feel of this kind of neighbourhood. For this reason, I believe there are better solutions to traffic than building more roads. What are these solutions? Kenmore High School is bursting at the seams. Put a new high school in at Bellbowrie, and a good fraction of school-related traffic on Moggill Road will disappear. Put in a comprehensive school bus system that will not leave children stranded at the side of the road, and you get rid of most of the rest of the school-related traffic. Add in entertainment, as well as professional and public services close to home, and fewer people need to travel.

Then there's the Greens plan to put in a light rail system, and park and ride to connect to existing bus services, and you really can live in the outer suburbs without spending half your life in unpleasant traffic. This could be done for a fraction of the cost of the tunnels being put in around Brisbane, which will have the effect of encouraging more people to use cars.

I would also like to see safe bike paths everywhere, not just paint on a road that does nothing to separate you from traffic. They have this right in distant, exotic places like Copenhagen and http://www.melbourne.vic.gov.au/info.cfm?top=70&pa=1154&pg=3476" target="_blank" title="Copenhagen bike lanes in Melbourne">Melbourne.

What of traditional Greens concerns like climate change? I'm on top of the science, with over 25 years in academia (computer science PhD, with a second major in physics in my BSc), and understand the need to phase in alternatives gradually, rather than wait until we have no choice but to move fast in the face of environmental catastrophe.

Closer to home, I am keen to support local environmental initiatives like catchment groups. One of the great features of Brisbane life is the amazing wildlife all around us. Let's not throw all that away, and turn our great little city into another LA, dedicated to the cult of the car to exclusion of all elses.

Most of all, I want to move away from the old politics approach of telling you what's good for you. I want to hear your ideas. I will be watching here but if you want to talk directly, mosey over to my http://greenupmoggill.org/" target="_blank" title="Green Up Moggill">web site.

My website is: http://opinion-nation.blogspot.com/

Frog breaks free

That's it.... I'm gonna make a break for it..