Dominated by a federal government, in a three-tier system of government, Australian politics is based on a constitution written in the 1890's that is extremely difficult to change via referendums. It...

A young boy, about to leave the comfort and security of primary school and venture into the teenage world of secondary school, has a very different summer school holiday. Living in the poorest part of...

Dominated by a federal government, in a three-tier system of government, Australian politics is based on a constitution written in the 1890's that is extremely difficult to change via referendums. It...

Over the past twelve years I have been writing parodies of songs to take the mickey out of how seriously Australians take their home grown sport of Australian rules football. Well known songs from the...

Sergeant Downs, or Sarge as he preferred, was minding his own business in the Cairns police station in Far North Queensland, Australia, when a stranger entered his life. Blessed with a photographic memory...

The Queensland police officer based in Cairns, Detective Acting Inspector Bernard Downs, still known as Sarge to all his colleagues, was quickly promoted after his true abilities came to the fore in solving...

Chief Inspector, 'Sarge' Downs of the Cairns police in Queensland, Australia is drawn into the investigation and coroner's inquest following an explosion of an LPG tanker being hauled by a locomotive...

Retired police officer 'Sarge' Downs and his family and friends find themselves embroiled in a well-hidden corruption process that had skimmed millions over the years from the Queensland government. The...

Mary Evans was born in 1920 in Melbourne, Australia. Her father had come home from World War 1 suffering from shell shock and the loss of his leg. When she was only seven, her father finally died. She,...

Politics in Australia offers up some very strange characters who become even stranger when elected. This book contains parodies of well-known songs about the weird antics that they get up to and the awkward...

As an observer of politics, it is easy to see that nothing ever really changes. Behind the smoke and mirrors of whatever party is in power the mantra is still the same. It is an adversarial system of...

An elderly woman is slowly dying in hospital and her old neighbor and friend has returned to be by her bedside. She had been found as a child outside a bombed house in the streets of London during the...

It's five o'clock one afternoon in Melbourne, Australia. Collins St is awash with people. Some people might just see a herd of humanity heading off home at the end of a working day. However, every person...

There are so many questions that maybe have no answers but have been asked since human life began. Science and religions have tried to answer them but we only have limited knowledge. As we learn more...

Over the past sixteen years I have been writing parodies of songs to take the mickey out of how seriously Australians take their home-grown sport of Australian rules football. Well known songs from the...

A surprise phone call leads to a fifty year old secret and a huge coverup by the Australian government. Bernard Wilfred Downs who prefers his nickname of Sarge in preference to those given to him, is...

The Abysmal Army is a group of misfits and rejects of armies that tried their best to make a living in medieval times when what we now call mythical creatures lived and worked side by side with humans....

A young boy, about to leave the comfort and security of primary school and venture into the teenage world of secondary school, has a very different summer school holiday. Living in the poorest part of...

Detective Inspector "Sarge" Downs of the Queensland police was returning to Cairns when he was witness to the horrific slaying of a young motorbike rider. Cradling the dying young woman in his arms he...

Dominated by a federal government, in a three-tier system of government, Australian politics is based on a constitution written in the 1890's that is extremely difficult to change via referendums. It...

Over the past twelve years I have been writing parodies of songs to take the mickey out of how seriously Australians take their home-grown sport of Australian rules football. Well known songs from the...

The Rebellion is a fantasy story that can be read on many levels. A young boy cast adrift in the world after the murder of his parents in Sicily in the 1500's, becomes a slave until he is bought and rescued...

Dominated by a federal government, in a three-tier system of government, Australian politics is based on a constitution written in the 1890's that is extremely difficult to change via referendums. It...

Former Chief Inspector "Sarge" Downs comes out of retirement to work as a private individual attempting to re-unite a young man from Germany with a man who disappeared more than twenty years earlier....

Political journalist, Harry Constance receives some information from an ex fellow Oxford scholar, now UK MP, Martin King. The information could be enough to bring down the UK government if true. However,...

Mary Evans was born in 1920 in Melbourne, Australia. Her father had come home from World War 1 suffering from shell shock and the loss of his leg. When she was only seven, her father finally died. She,...

Detective Inspector "Sarge" Downs uncle is visiting his nephew in Cairns. Ray Downs had adopted Sarge when Sarge was only four after his parents had been killed in a car accident. Ray was normally a quietly...

Growing up on the north west coast of Italy in the mid fifteenth century, a boy is at last able to trace his own history after leaving his idyllic secluded village. Traveling to Lucca, Pisa and on to...

Loosely based on the Wizard of Oz by L Frank Baum, this musical drags in many fairy tale characters all into the one musical pantomime. It was first performed in the early 1980's in a small school of...

An action that former Chief Inspector, now retired Sarge Downs, had done many years before came back to haunt him in a deadly way. With his family in danger, he contacted Cairns police station's CIB and...