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India’s caste system was officially outlawed in 1950, but it’s still very much alive in modern India, and even affects the diaspora in Australia. At the bottom of the hierarchy are the Dalits, who continue to suffer persecution and discrimination.
This episode was published 4 days ago, available until 4:00pm on 21 Jul 2022.
Oh, Gerard, all this is endlessly upsetting!
We should really all be thinking about it where we could do better. Despite all of it, I have hope that in future Australia may be doing better. Somehow I have the feeling that a lot of changes are going to come! 🙂
During the sixties and seventies, Australia discovered making free money by selling all our previously held government assets. Government insurances, the post and telegraph, banks, anything that could be sold, electricity, water , you name it and it would turn a dollar . And that wasn’t enough. It was followed by selling the ground underneath us. There were more riches to be made, oil, gas, iron ore, silver gold, coal uranium, titanium and now the richest of them all, lithium.
But what happened to all that money? Where is it now?
Here it is.
1 Gina Rhinehart (mining) $32.64 billion.
2Andrew Forrest (mining) $31.77 billion.
3 Clive Palmer (mining) $ 18.35 Billion.
4 Ivan Glasenberg (mining) $9,10 Billion.
With a looming economic recession rapidly coming over the horizon one wonders if all that wealth in just a few hands could have been better spent or, saved for a rainy day!…
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freefall852 EditWishing you all the best Uta..and my regards to Peter as well..all the best..Reply
lewbornmann EditOut thoughts and prayers are with you….Reply
catterel EditKeeping you both in prayer, Uta. Glad you have Caroline with you. Hugs xx
auntyuta EditI thank everyone for all your good wishes!auntyuta Diary, Life in Australia, Old Age March 17, 2013 1 Minute
Here’s our Buddha. He seems to be happy enough in this wilderness area near our house. Being the 5th Sunday of Lent today, I should have attended Mass. However so far I didn’t go out at all yet. This afternoon we’re off to neighbouring Warrawong to watch Steven Spielberg’s Movie about LINCOLN.
So far so good. I am very happy that I am very much pain-free today. Tomorrow I’ll have to see the doctor about the test results. I anticipate the blood-test is going to show that I am okay.
What else do I anticipate? Well, I anticipate that I’ll probably live for another five or ten years. I also anticipate that I might perhaps even be able to venture on another overseas trip when I am in my eighties!
For next month I anticipate that we’re going to see the family over Easter and that Peter and I are going to enjoy our planned trip to Victoria. The beautiful warm summer weather will be gone by then. However I am looking forward to see a bit of the country side and then be spending a few days with family in Melbourne.
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Auntie, Sister. Grandmother, Great-Grandmother, Mother and Wife of German Descent I’ve lived in Australia since 1959 together with my husband Peter. We have four children, eight grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. I started blogging because I wanted to publish some of my childhood memories. I am blogging now also some of my other memories. I like to publish some photos too as well as a little bit of a diary from the present time. Occasionally I publish a story with a bit of fiction in it. Peter, my husband, is publishing some of his stories under berlioz1935.wordpress.com View all posts by auntyuta
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likeitiz EditGlad to hear you are out and about. Feel badly about the pain though. I hope you’ll enjoy “Lincoln.” My hubby and I found it quite powerful. Stay well!Reply
berlioz1935 EditI hope you anticipate that I’m with you all the way. It is important that old people are not lonely. In today’s societies the elderly are often left to their own devices.I’m looking forward to our trip to Mildura and Melbourne. We will see our son and Granddaughter. I did do the same trip more than fifty years ago. What do I anticipate? Change !Replyauntyuta EditA trip to Mildura after a fifty year absence, Peter? For sure a lot of things will have changed. But maybe some things haven’t changed.?.And don’t forget we are also going to see our son’s extended family in Melbourne. I am so looking forward to seeing our great-granddaughters again. We didn’t see them for one whole year!. And it’s even been longer since we’ve seen the granddaughter who’s coming for a visit to Melbourne at the same time that we’re going to be there. Judging by the pictures she puts always on your face-book, she’s already very grown up and beautiful! When we were in Melbourne more than a year ago we were able to see both our granddaughters there, the daughters of our son. They’re both so very beautiful! And our grandson, the son of our son, he has such a beautiful family. We love them!Our son we haven’t seen for eight months. He came to stay with us for a week when Gaby died. Took the week off work, hired a big enough car to cart the whole family around on frequent trips to Sydney while the memorial for Gaby had to be organized. It will be good to see our son again, who’s birthday is on the 8th of April.Replycatterel EditNice positive post, Uta – a long and healthy life to you both. I’ve been missing my family back in switzerland – but that’s only a 2-hour flight away! So you have put things into perspective for me, distance is all relative! Thank you.Reply
Robert M. Weiss EditUta, good luck with your health, and I hope you achieve your long-range plans. Having positive thoughts, and walking on a daily basis, never hurts.Replyauntyuta EditThanks, Robert, I’ll keep it in mind!Reply
Three Well Beings EditI certainly hope you’re in excellent health, Uta. Your list of anticipations is wonderful. You have an excellent outlook on life and that should keep you around for a very long time yet! Reply
Island Traveler EditI’m glad you are pain free. I do believe the test results will be okay as well. I hope and pray for your good health my friend and that of your family. Happiness lives in your heart always.Reply
aussieian2011 EditTravel while you can Auntyuta, there is still much to see in our beautiful country, hope you get a chance to see our beautiful Murray river up here in Mildura, the weather is quite mild these days now, Autumn will be on us soon.Reply
eof737 EditHe looks serene. Replyauntyuta EditYes, always, Eliz.Replyauntyuta EditReblogged this on AuntyUta and commented:This post I published more than six years ago. I anticipated to live probably for another five to ten years. Ah well, I just celebrated my 85th birthday. Now I anticipate that maybe I am going to live four another four or five years! Replyaussieian2011 EditTravel while you can Uta, it keeps the heart young, maybe a visit to the beautiful mountain country of Healesville and Marysville will lure you, not far from Melbourne, up in the hills, pristine mountain waters rippling over mountain streams, crisp air invigorating for the lungs and superb rural countryside vista, wherever you go, enjoy.Replyauntyuta EditIt is 2022 now. In less than three months I am going to be 88.I just try to reblog this post to my other site
VERY SOON I AM GOIMG TO WRITE ABOUT CARTER’S LITTLE SISTER, WHO TURNED ONE ON THE 13TH OF SEPT. 2020. HER NAME IS EVIE ROSE, AND SHE IS ALREADY A BIG GIRL NOW AND DOING VERY WELL.
MARTIN’S TWO GRAND-DAUGHTERS LIVE IN VICTORIA. BOTH ARE BORN IN JULY, THIS YEAR THEIR AGES ARE ALREADY GOING TO BE 15 AN 14.
A few days ago I thought of Evie’s upcoming third birthday, and I wrote the above in a comment to one of my blogs.
So, Evie’s birthday is going to be on the 13th of September!
And what was Peter’s and my life like in September 2020?
Well, In Australia we have Father’s Day on the first Sunday of September. Our daughter Gaby’s Birthday had been on the 28th of August. In 2020 Peter had baked a cake in memory of Gaby’s Birthday. The Father’s Day in 2020 was on…
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Alexander turned one in September 2015. So he is going to be 8 this coming September! 🙂
And I, Uta, the great-grandma, I am going to be 88 in September! 🙂
I’ve just been reading all this again and think, it is worth reblogging.
It would be nice, if some of my followers would find it interesting too.
I did write this post nearly seven years ago. Have I changed a lot since then? Probably, for my life has changed very much since then, as some of my followers would be only too aware of. Yes, I think my life is very, very different now. But I am now more or less getting used to this different stage in my life! 🙂
So, life is a constant change. This is just what we have to learn to accept! 🙂
Tuesday was the 21st of September, my birthday. I did not only have a Great Day, but also a great week. It reminded me of my 80th birthday in 2014, when I was celebrating for days on end.
I had another look at what I wrote in September of 2014 and 2015, and decided to reblog it, for it was very interesting for me to see all the pictures and what I wrote about my parents. So, I imagine it to be a bit interesting too for some other people to have a look at it. Anyway, I hope so! 🙂
Here is what I posted in 2015:
Last Sunday turned out to be a lovely family day at our home. It was beautiful to be surrounded by children, grand-children, and great grand-children for a few hours in the afternoon. Some almond-cake was left from Gaby’s birthday.There was…
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‘THE MOUSE KILLS THE CAT’
“US Marine invasion and occupation of his country which began in 1911 . . . ”
So, Sandino was one of the most important and successful guerilla fighters of the 20th century? This is somehow remarkable, isn’t it?
Before Fidel Castro and Che Guevara, before Ho Chi Minh and before Mao began his Long March, there was Augusto Cesar Sandino.
While Sandino is not a household name in much of the world, as these others are, he was one of the most important and successful guerilla fighters of the 20th century, successfully driving the US Marines out of Nicaragua against nearly impossible odds. His image, with his iconic Tom Mix cowboy hat tilted to one side, continues to be the most ubiquitous symbol in Nicaragua – a country led by the Sandinista Front, named in his honor.
Unlike the aforementioned revolutionaries, Sandino was not an intellectual and he was not a Marxist. Rather, he…
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Russian President Vladimir Putin described the collapse of the Soviet Union as “the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the 20th century.” This documentary from 2021 shows the path Russian foreign policy has followed under Putin. [This documentary was originally released in 2021. In February 2022, Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered the invasion of Ukraine.] On December 25, 1991, the Soviet Union collapsed. Along with it came hope for the end of the Cold War, for independence and freedom for the former Soviet republics. But for many it also brought poverty and war. What remains of the dreams of that time? The documentary includes contemporary witnesses and politicians of the decisive years and shows what has become of the legacy of a world power.
I, Uta, think, that India is a fascinating country! 🙂
https://iview.abc.net.au/show/india-now/series/2022/video/NC2216H002S00
A rich and entertaining look at news, culture and politics from India and the subcontinent. Host Marc Fennell and guests explore everything that makes this enchanted country, and its neighbours, the region to watch.
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The big business of Bollywood and the influence of sport and culture in diplomacy. Marc Fennell joins movie star Pallavi Sharda, High Commissioner Manpreet Vohra and Avani Dias for the latest on Aus cricket tour of Sri Lanka.
This episode was published 7 days ago, available until 9:38pm on 6 Jul 2022.
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