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Dear Australian News Media: enough with the soap opera
Our Prime Minister announces the protection of the Malabar headlands in Sydney as a National Park, World Heritage listing of Australian historical sites, and the introduction of MySuper from 2013 – and all you can ask about is Liberal talking points regarding Downer, Rudd and leaks? Shame on you.
Abbott-watch redux
I’m sick to the back teeth of the MSM coverage of this campaign descending into trivial gossip about Labor rifts and rivalries.
I want to know what bloody Abbott is up to, and highlight just how awful its implications (no doubt) will be.
Tony Abbott – the man your PM should be (Old Spice) parody
If you haven’t seen the Old Spice ad that this is parodying spend some time here. Then watch this.
Obligatory #FryOperaHouse report
Last night 2500 Sydneysiders provided the most charming theatrical moment I have ever been privileged to share as they gasped as one at the revelation that Stephen Fry was unaware of the existence, let alone the gustatory delights, of the noble Australian Tim-Tam
Because portraying violence against women is so edgy, doncha know?
Warning: the image in the linked article may be triggering for some readers.
Stickers you can put on your luggage to make it easily identifiable? Good idea. Silly stickers like blocks of cocaine or dildos? Juvenile and likely to have Customs paying you more attention than you’d really want, but if you are silly enough to [...]
It’s All Jezza’s fault
Certain People in my family have a great fondness for the boofy turbo-boosted mayhem that is Top Gear. I confess the laddish antics occasionally make me laugh as well.
Memories: Norman Gunston November 11, 1975
despite how many people were highly perturbed and critical of the way in which Whitlam lost office as PM, the voters overwhelming preferenced Whitlam’s ouster, Fraser, at the subsequent election.
National Security Committee Meetings and past and present PMs
Seriously, just how many senior members of Cabinet really need to be present for every single NSCC meeting?
Elections and volunteering
what I’m particularly interested in is GetUp!’s call for volunteer activists to be part of GetTogethers aiming to coordinate local action within their electorates, focussing on 3 main issues for the 2010 Federal election
Baby kissing
Image credit: PM Julia Gillard and Treasurer Wayne Swan holding some babies.
You know when you pick up someone’s baby you have that pleasedon’tcrypleasedon’tcry chant running through your head? I don’t feel it quite so much now that I have babies of my own and I’ve had the opportunity instead to demoralise [...]
Joyeux Quatorze Juillet! @oldspice guy should say something in French to mark Bastille Day
Go on, Isaiah. Talk to us in French. You know you want to.
Liveable House Design
A new voluntary building code on house design is being released today by Parliamentary Secretary for Disabilities, Bill Shorten. (please note link is to the media article on the code, not the code itself).
Some exerpts from the article (SMH 13.7.10 author Kristy Needham):
A minimalist step-free shower; a corridor wide enough for a sofa; and a front entry [...]
Threads of Doom and the lurch to the right
While my wonkish side is partly thrilled to see so many people critically engaged with public policy for once, for them to come to it from a place of disappointment, suspicion and resentment over a previous incomplete understanding of the system is far from ideal.
Whoydensday: Just one more 2010 episode to go!
But in very serious news: I’m terribly, terribly jealous of the fact that the cast and crew got to hang around Stonehenge with it all to themselves. I may have to go gnaw my liver for some time.
Quickhit: Scienceblogs’ new nutrition blog – from PepsiCo
As Chris Clarke says: I don’t see how this could possibly end badly.
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