Politics

I’m a working non-family, how about you?

Barely a day goes by without our faithful leader, PM Julia Gillard, or our faithful swimsuit-model-wannabe-leader Mr Abbott, dropping the...

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Carbon fatigue

I’ve had a super hectic week, and a large chunk of it has involved reading freight trains full of mainstream media content on the...

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Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear

Where’s Wally? (Or Where’s Waldo, if you happen to be American) Yes, I along with every other moderate or left leaning or...

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Crikey!

Had a piece about the Indonesian presidential election in Crikey yesterday.  Here’s the link.  It was done in quite a rush, so...

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Heading to the polls…

As Indonesia prepares to head to the polls Thursday for its general elections, to be followed by presidential elections in July, perhaps...

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Danger! Danger!

“Where you from miss?” my taxi driver hollered as we rode over a particularly pothole-riddled stretch of "road"....

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Lucky I saw the strippers last weekend…

I feel ever so fortunate to be in Indonesia at the same time as the infamous anti-pornography bill was finally passed, 10 years after it...

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The John Winston Howard memorial walk

I’ve been going on lots of long walks this week (after being supremely lazy for quite a while), and today I did what I like to call...

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So happy about the Ruddslide

So happy about the election result. Gathered with my friends last night, we were almost crying with joy. After 11.5 years of a Howard...

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Blog day of action

This post is for the Blog Action Day, which is being held today. See http://www.blogactionday.org/. Bloggers around the world are being...

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APEC Protests, Saturday

A man rests against one of the State Transit buses that were turned into mobile holding cells just for APEC. I went to the major APEC...

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Rain makes protests a bit of a bummer

Today I was at the Peacebus and ‘Bums not bombs’ protest (where a 21 bum salute was performed for the APEC leaders) today at...

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