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CELEBRATING 35 YEARS.

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Godfather of Italian Dining celebrates 35 years.

 

Tony Cattafi, the Godfather of Italian dining in Australia – and owner of the nation’s first pasta house, La Spaghettata, is set to celebrate the  famous restaurant with the announcement of 35 years in Carlton.

 

Following 35 years of creating authentic Italian dishes and experiences, Mr Cattafi’s vision for the iconic restaurant located on Melbourne’s famous Lygon Street has  moved forward with the times with his two sons, Fabio and Mauro Cattafi appointed to take on the greater role in the strategic direction of the venue.

 

It is by all accounts the type of rags to riches story that makes Australia remain as one of the world’s most desired locations to holiday and migrate to.

 

Uneducated and unable to speak a word of English, and with barely a penny to his name, Tony Cattafi and his young wife, Giovanna took their first steps on Australian soil in 1950, arriving on a boat from Sicily, Italy.

 

With little more than the clothes on their backs and a willingness to work hard day after day, the Cattafis set about creating a place where people could come and enjoy the wholesome goodness and flavours of their Old Country.

 

In those early days Tony had a vision to feed the people of Australia, but he never dared to dream the small business he and Giovanna would go on to create, as much to make a living as it was to remind them of their homeland, would become a legacy that would continue for generations. Nor that the people of Melbourne would embrace their authentic Italian dishes and warm family hospitality with such gusto.

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Science Volume 4 Issue 4 References

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About GRAIL. Grail. Available at: http://moon.mit.edu/. Accessed: 28 March, 2016 Ancient Polar Ice Reveals Tilting of Earth’s Moon. NASA, 24 March, 2016. Available at: https://www.nasa.gov/ames/feature/lunar-polar-ice-reveals-tilting-axis-of-earth-s-moon/. Accessed: 28 March,2016 GRAIL (Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory). eoPortal Directory. Available at: https://www.eoportal.org/satellite-missions/grail. Accessed: 28 March, 2016 GRAIL: In Depth. NASA. Available at: https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/missions/grail/indepth/. Accessed:28 March, 2016 GRAIL Mission … Read more

Liberals soft on Australian terrorist supporters – ASIO refuses to uncover surveillance costs and location of Traitors: Lambie

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Independent Senator for Tasmania Jacqui Lambie’s Estimate committee questioning of Australia’s Spy Agency and Attorney General has revealed that the liberal government has refused to take legal action against 190 Australian terrorist supporters, while ASIO refuses to reveal the surveillance cost of these traitors. “Why hasn’t the Liberal government charged each of these 190 Australians … Read more

Wye River and Separation Creek Band Together

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Wye River & Separation Creek Bush fire relief Concert 30th January @ Wye Beach Hotel On Christmas Day 2015 Santa did not leave presents at Wye River and Separation Creek. Instead a fire ripped through the town. The CFA fought valiantly, and saved many homes. But still the fire ravaged and destroyed 116 homes and … Read more

Putin Sings ‘Blueberry Hill’ At Charity Dinner

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From NPR The Two-Way: “It’s taken a couple days to go viral and get our attention, but now the video from over the weekend of Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin singing Blueberry Hill is rising fast. So, for your enjoyment in case you haven’t seen it yet: YouTube “The scene was a children’s charity dinner … Read more

Journalist Mel McLaughlin Deserves an Apology from Cricket Star Chris Gayle

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Renegades batsman, Chris Gayle owes Australian journalist Mel McLaughlin a massive apology for his indecent propositioning of her during a live interview, after he was dismissed for 41 from 15 balls in the Big Bash clash against Hobart on Monday night. The West Indian cricket star told an uncomfortable McLaughlin that he had been dismissed … Read more

Michael Jensen Among Religious Instruction’s Consequences

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By Hugh Harris         Rector Michael Jensen’s article, If you want kids to be happy, try religion, in the ABC’s The Drum provides a striking example of how readily the religious mind contents itself with insufficient evidence. His thesis as follows (my emphasis): There’s been a lot of alarmist stuff written recently … Read more

Tony Abbott’s Conscience and the Rainbow Sails in the Sunset

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hughharrisBy Hugh Harris

 

 

 

It’s not going away… Over the weekend thousands of Australians rallied in support of same-sex marriage. Liberal MPs rueful at the farce of Tony Abbott’s stone-walling, might reflect on what a conscience vote really means. Individuals can vote freely on certain issues because of particular beliefs they hold – usually cultural or religious.

Tony Abbott has exercised his conscience, in order to disallow others from exercising theirs, as if in mockery of the very concept. This highlights the fatal flaw with conscience: if everyone acted on conscience we would have a country of 24 million Tony Abbott’s demanding respect for their own views. We’d never agree on anything and yet, some opponents of gay marriage insist the consciences of all Australians must be preserved under the guise of religious liberty. If we grant any credence to the “conscience” of one person, unaccompanied by evidence or argument, we devalue the objective good reasons why policies are implemented.

Of the 33 conscience votes in the Federal parliament many have been perceived as issues of principle. These include the abolition of the death penalty, euthanasia, sex discrimination and human embryo cloning. A vote occurred in 1973, when John Gorton proposed that homosexual acts in private should not be subject to the criminal law, and also in 1974, when the Family Law Bill allowed no-fault divorce. Decades later we look back at these two changes as measures of our progress, rather than matters of principle. Once we have moved on, the reasons for their adoption seem so obvious and apparent that we wonder why it took so long. One suspects we’ll see same-sex marriage in much the same way in 20 years.

Notwithstanding, the thwarting of the conscience vote for Coalition MPs provides a ray of hope for the stalwarts against change. If the leaders of our country can meet for a marathon six hours, hear from 90 speakers, and still resolve to do nothing it’s a good sign for the status quo. But unfortunately for them, the debate is de-facto already lost.

“De-facto” refers to holding a position in fact but not necessarily by legal right. As such, de-facto couples have the same rights in fact to marriage couples, and legal disputes are arbitrated on how “marriage-like” the relationship is. The laws on de-facto couples were changed in 2009 allowing same-sex couples the same rights as heterosexual couples.

Ah, but won’t marriage-equality opponents say there’s a big difference between a de-facto couple and a married couple?

No. They try to placate the forces for change by arguing equal rights already exist (see Rowan Dean). Also, note the following quote from senior fellow at Australian Catholic University, Kevin Donnelly:

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