Photo by solidstate The Larouchites are, bless ’em. Addit: And they seem to have confidence in overarching financial conspiracies to spare, having seemingly passed it on to some Liberal Party advisors. A plan so cunning, you could put a tail… Read More ›
Politics
Supporting an apology
Photo from GetUp! Here’s the text of the e-mail I just sent to my MP: I just wish to offer my support for the Labor government’s decision to take the hugely symbolic and just action of apologising on behalf of… Read More ›
Greenwashing: dodgy green claims
CHOICE, the consumer activist group1, have a longstanding campaign targeting misleading “green claims” in advertising. Photo by Daveybot Organisations may mislead consumers by promoting themselves and their products as ‘eco-friendly’, ‘green’, ‘sustainable’ or ‘environmentally friendly’ and so on, when in… Read More ›
Gestation Anxiety: the othering of intentional single motherhood
“Maverick Mother” is playing on SBS tomorrow, Friday February 1, at 10 pm. (on XY Doc). [1] “Brave stuff”. “Controversial”. ABC’s Life Matters has this to say about Janet Merewether’s autodocumentary, “Maverick Mother”. Did Merewether climb Mt Everest? Take her… Read More ›
Neale Fong and Jim McGinty: the plot thickens.
Ah, Western Australian politics. Such a festering sewer. I wrote last week about Neale Fong, overpaid Health Department bigwig, being forced to resign. The trigger was the Crime and Corruption Commission report recommending disciplinary action and possible prosecution – after… Read More ›
Fong Gonged
The most highly paid civil servant in the country, chaplain and footy bigwig Neale Fong, has fallen off his golden Health Department perch. Fongy has been under investigation by the Crime and Corruption Commission for some months in relation to… Read More ›
The Rotting Cryptkeeper is at it again
Via a commentor at Larvatus Prodeo, I discovered that Fred Phelps, the leader of the Westboro Baptist Church hate group, is planning to picket the funeral of Heath Ledger as a “fag enabler”. As I’ve blogged before, the WBC’s funeral-picketing… Read More ›
One man’s persistence
is probably a large part of the reason why the British Ministry of Defence (MoD) has decided to send all its documents investigating reported UFO sightings to the National Archive where they may be readily examined by the interested public…. Read More ›
Overcoming electoral fatigue
After blogging the last election fairly comprehensively, I’ve really backed off from blogging parliamentary politics lately. I know I’ll get back into it, but I’ve needed a break. The good people at GetUp, however, have been indefatigable, holding meetings of… Read More ›
Clicks, Pics, ‘n’ Politics: Assortment
A big assortment of pictures, video, and reading today.
Hoyden About Town 