It was about 40 years ago, as a 15 year old teenager, that I first got involved in politics. I was in the youth group of a now-defunct political party, at around the same time as the then-brand-new southeast freeway was being opened. As part of a protest, a colleague and I snuck onto the…
I had the pleasure of producing and presenting news bulletins at one of my fave little radio stations over the weekend – River 949 at Ipswich – and I was amused by the difference between it,and my final ‘full-time’ station, Radio 4BC. Now, before I go on, it is NOT my intention to ‘slag off’…
I was reading an article on adults who read “Young Adult” fiction, when the author asserted that the reason so many of us like reading books ostensibly written for teens is that they have “satisfying” ends. I’ll get to that in a moment – but first some background. It could be argued that the “Young…
Here’s the first episode of Rear View Microphone – the weekly podcast covering Travel, and Tourism, and Cruising, and Communications, and Arts and Entertainment, and Politics and more … Enjoy!
First up, welcome to the new Cairnscommunications blog. It’s got a new look, as you can tell – but it’s also got a new commitment from me. When I gave up full-time work about six months ago, it was to give me time to write about the things I love, and to travel, and to…
I could almost hear my wife shaking her head, as my mother described her reading style last weekend – Mum used to devour books in a single sitting but then go back and read them a second time, to pick up the stuff she missed the first time around. That of course is also the way…
What do quake-shaken Napier New Zealand, cyclone-slammed Innisfail Nth Queensland and hurricane-hammered South Beach Miami have in common? An architecture more normally associated with New York, and LA, and Paris. How so? It’s largely a matter of timing. In 1918, Innisfail was slammed by a cyclone that killed around a hundred people. So bad was the damage in…
Recently, I was in Rome at the end of an amazing cruise (It was one of those once-in-a-lifetime things: me and five middle-aged women, going around the world by plane and ship – I’ll tell you about it some other time). Anyway, as we checked into our hotel, one of our party spotted a flyer…
Cairns Communications is the Freelance Journalism / VoiceOver / Training / Travel Writing company of Graham and Shirley Cairns. Training and Education Graham and Shirley Cairns have been involved in training for decades, in Public Speaking and Journalism education. For many years they were key figures in the growth and development of Toastmasters clubs in…
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