David Ellis

In Australia the Cabramatta Moon Festival is recognised as one of our biggest and brightest Asian cultural celebrations, attracting around 90,000 visitors, Asian and Western alike.

Back in 1893, America’s then-wealthiest man, William Waldorf Astor, had England’s high society in an absolute tizz when he had the audacity to buy his way into their ranks by paying $US1.25m for the Duke of Westminster’s grand Cliveden House in Buckinghamshire.

He’s like some modern-day Pied Piper, except that it’s not children he’s leading through the town square, but adults.

The delightful little town of Bowral in the NSW Southern Highlands, has taken a jump on New York City, to erect a life-size statue of the world’s most popular super-nanny, Mary Poppins.

The Dutch are marvels at creating engineering wonders on their home turf, but when they were asked back in the 1940s to build a road around and over the tiny island of Saba in the Caribbean’s Netherlands Antilles, they studied it long and hard and decided: “Nee — this is impossible,” and went home.

In Australia the Cabramatta Moon Festival is recognised as one of our biggest and brightest Asian cultural celebrations, attracting around 90,000 visitors, Asian and Western alike.

Back in 1893, America’s then-wealthiest man, William Waldorf Astor, had England’s high society in an absolute tizz when he had the audacity to buy his way into their ranks by paying $US1.25m for the Duke of Westminster’s grand Cliveden House in Buckinghamshire.

He’s like some modern-day Pied Piper, except that it’s not children he’s leading through the town square, but adults.

The delightful little town of Bowral in the NSW Southern Highlands, has taken a jump on New York City, to erect a life-size statue of the world’s most popular super-nanny, Mary Poppins.

The Dutch are marvels at creating engineering wonders on their home turf, but when they were asked back in the 1940s to build a road around and over the tiny island of Saba in the Caribbean’s Netherlands Antilles, they studied it long and hard and decided: “Nee — this is impossible,” and went home.