A painting I did ...I think every blogpost should have a picture, even if it doesn't relate at all to the post. so this week, i was informed that in WA ( Western Australia), they are paying huge amounts of money for truck drivers and the like to support the mining industry. so, yeah, I am now looking at OZ as a place to go. A country the size of the US with a population around that of just NYC... appealing.  Not so appealing would be my concerns of the environmental right-ness of the operations, indigenous peoples rights, impacts and issues.. stuff like that.