Natural disasters in Queensland and New Zealand have highlighted the value of sign language interpreters.
Politics
Polling place accessibility and the NSW state election
I get the impression that the NSW election sees a slight improvement over the Federal election in polling place accessibility information. How does your electorate look? How many fully wheelchair accessible polling places, how many assisted access, and how close are they to you? What information is missing from the descriptions?
Quickhit: Second Preference Groups in the NSW State election
NSW State election 2011: why neither my local Liberal candidate for the Legislative Assembly, nor the Liberal and National party candidates for the Legislative Council, will be getting any preference at all from me.
Thursday Cheezburger – Politicians
Today’s theme is: Politicians, in honour of the State election in NSW this weekend.
Post your own favourite in-theme Cheez here, and wait for admin image magic to make it appear.
Why aren’t there Facebook ‘Like’ buttons on everything?
Because I want a Facebook Like button on this. What would you put a ‘Like’ button on if you could? ETA: And then you find someone who’s done it so much better.
Mythcommunication and Defending the Indefensible
Two posts from today that neatly bookend a whole series of shelves about the rape culture. We’re not supposed to ever hold a winning hand here.
Libya NFZ and selective support for Arab uprisings
Open thread on ‘Arab Spring’ uprisings and retaliations.
Who knew Wilde foresaw the 2011 NSW election?
The ALP, is, of course, the “unspeakable”, but they’ve had to become virtual cartoons before the LibNats have been able to look like this time they are finally going to get Labor out of government.
QFT: why we all need unions, and protests
instead of getting angry that public sector employees are actually being treated decently, let’s ask private sector employers why they refuse to show their employees the same respect
Q&A – counterpoints, ambush and ripostes
Her responses to questions about the Allan Jones Ju-Liar episode, the outrage regarding carbon pricing and the latest round of Rudd being out of control claims were calm yet sharp and where possible good-humoured without being flippant.
Then came the Julian Assange video question. Is it really the place of the national broadcaster to set up an ambush effort that network tabloid current affairs programs would be dubious about?
Hoyden About Town 