Category Archives: Australia

Australia’s declaration of secularization

Posted on April 1, 2012 by April Feuss

The old Christian calendar to disappear.  — Men from Mars now from “fourth planet out.”  –   Language gets a new name.  — Monarchy disestablished and replaced by national beer. Australia’s ruling labour party has had it with religious influence.  They … Continue reading →

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Then she stole the sailor’s heart

Posted on February 14, 2012 by Vasco Phillip de Sousa

It had all started when Susannah Lalliment “stole” that ten pound note she saw lying on the floor. After a year of life at sea and waiting at port, it must have seemed that her sentence of a “life of transpotation” really was a life of transportation. Until she met a ship’s carpenter, and a forgotten hero… Continue reading →

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Susannah Lalliment meets the American pirates

Posted on February 2, 2012 by Vasco Phillip de Sousa

Despite her conviction, Susannah Lalliment was lucky. The far off colonies of the Empire had too few loyal subjects, and the parliament had an idea of how to get more people there. Susannah’s death sentence was commuted to banishment, life … Continue reading →

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