Daily Melbourne Photo - 29 May 2007

St George hiding behind his horsey...

Daily Melbourne Photo - 14 December 2006

Morning sun through thick bushfire haze, yesterday...



And a bonus close-up of the solar disc, with sunspot:

A Hazy Shade of Bushfire

The weather was a bit unpleasant in Melbourne yesterday - 37-degree heat combined with a thick smoke haze from bushfires raging across Victoria.

Here a a few images showing how the city looked around mid-afternoon...

Bring David home rally - Federation Square, 9 December 2006

Melburnians endured the heat and bushfire smoke today to protest against the five-year imprisonment without charge or trial of David Hicks.

Memo to the Australian and US governments - if you're fighting against people who want to take away our freedoms, your motives are hard to have faith in if you fight the battle by taking away our freedoms.

Even the worst criminals deserve a fair trial. It's an essential right in a country that values democracy, freedom and the rule of law. Remember those concepts? Our founding fathers found them quite important. Some of us still do.