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Mark Tronson

Press Service International

Dr Mark Tronson  -  a 4 min video

https://youtu.be/vxhhVbRmUlM

Chairman – Well-Being Australia

Baptist Minister 45 years

  • 1984  -  Australian cricket team chaplain 17 years (Ret)
  • 2001  -  Life After Cricket (18 years Ret)
  • 2009 -   Olympic Ministry Medal – presented by Carl Lewis
  • 2019  -  The Gutenberg  -  (ARPA Christian Media premier award)  

Gutenberg video  -  2min 14sec

Married to Delma for 45 years with 4 children and 6 grand children

  • War Tourism is massive (PSI Best of 2018)

    Tourism is a favourite topic of mine and those who have read my column over many years have noted this interest. We founded and ran Australia's Bush Orchestra in Moruya in 1996 and have run many tourism ministry seminars both in Australia and internationally, and a common denominator are the huge numbers who visit war tourist sites.

  • Why fireworks are coloured?

    It is New Year’s Eve  -  the nation sees in the New Year 12.00am the 1 January 2019 with fireworks – kind of - where we live at Tweed Heads / Coolangatta we get the 12.00am fireworks at the Jack Evans Boat Harbour NSW daylight saving time, followed by the Qld 12.00am a fireworks one hour later. One side of the street is New South Wales, the other side Queensland.

  • Locomotive's and their drivers – Footplate Padre (PSI Best of 2018)

    The Footplate Padre tells the story of the retired steam locomotive driver Vince Laymos who recalls the best steam locomotive driver he ever witnessed first hand  - this was Nyngan steam locomotive depot driver Don McLeod  - but the story may have just as valid a any depot in Australia or New Zealand.

  • Titles in the modern world (PSI Best of 2018)

    In a NZ Herald article it was reported that a cousin of Winston Churchill has died, leaving the son he once described as a "black sheep" to inherit one of Britain's most prestigious aristocratic titles.

  • The ardour and the principles (PSI Best of 2018)

    Principles are encased with stone. They are set in concrete. They are the foundation upon which a society functions. Principles stand alone. Principles are like a beacon on a hill. 

  • Best of 2018 young writers starts Monday

    The “Best of 2018” Press Service International (PSI) young writer articles kick-starts on Monday (31 December) for a two week period over the New Year period giving the young writers a well deserved break.

  • French nobility to a line of Reverend's then to little-old me (PSI Best of 2018)

    A popular television series “Who do you think you are” - both the UK and the Australian versions, trace specific identities pasts, to find out where they came from and the juicier the characters in their past the more interesting, in so far as the production on Michael Parkinson was stopped as his ancestors proved not interesting enough. 

  • Annoying work habits by colleagues (PSI Best of 2018)

    A few years back, a News.com article headline jumped out at me, shouting and screaming, which applied to mission and church colleagues in our 'religious' work places - those annoying things are so very difficult to bring to book – yet we're all supposed to be sweet and lovely.  

  • Christmas and its exclusivity?

    What does it mean when I see or hear the word ‘exclusive’. Perhaps something desirable, or it might refer to something that excludes me and my family. Or even something unobtainable, beyond my reach.

  • Busy depots in the days of steam (PSI Best of 2018)

    In the days of steam on the New South Wales Government Railways young men initiated their career as Trainee Enginemen to becoming a Train Driver, and their role as a Trainee Engineman included cleaning the steam engine cabins, managing the turntable, oiling the steam engine's rods and motions and the like.