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  • Budget Drinking Game!

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    Zoe had some sort of collision with a crystal ball and ended up liveblogging Tonight’s Budget Speech last night instead. So the plan is: Print out Zoe’s post. Make a large jug of something reprehensibly alcoholic Sit in comfy chair… Read More ›

  • More complacent denigration

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    crossposted at LP Last year Paul Norton wrote with some sadness and much asperity “Is David Burchell brain-dead?” Referring to the particular column which prompted the post, Paul contrasted ex-communist Burchell’s stance with the positions taken by anti-communist Robert Manne… Read More ›

  • Women of Myanmar (Burma) and China

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    I’m just going to quote this post from Suzie at Echidne of the Snakes in full,complete with its links for Burma, and add a reminder for the women of China coping with the earthquake disaster of yesterday. When a disaster… Read More ›

  • From the mailbag

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    It’s not all invitations to coffee or ungrammatic hatemail. Sometimes these little notes revive pleasant memories of previous posts, like a nice little alert from someone (doing a systematic search on sites which had referenced them) to an updated URL… Read More ›

  • Tropposphere

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    Ken Parish of Club Troppo has just introduced what he calls the Tropposphere. The Tropposphere is a Clayton’s feedreader of selected news, opinion, and analysis. The aim is to aggregate the “best or most popular” Australian blogs who “consistently publish… Read More ›

  • Another for the ‘rape is not about sexual attraction’ file

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    Man, aged 18, charged with raping an 82 year old woman twice, allegedly attacking her as she was taking an early morning walk in a park. On Mother’s Day. He is most unlikely to have found her irresistably physically desirable:… Read More ›

  • Ice Queens

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    Images from the Australian Antarctic Division’s online photo gallery from a 2006 exhibition: these are the Icebergs. There are also galleries for: * Animals * Auroras * Australians in Antarctica * Colours of Antarctica * Electron microscopy * Ice patterns… Read More ›

  • How’s your Language Footprint?

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    [image source] We Australians aren’t really much for learning languages other than English. We’re quite comfy in our dominant language, and when travelling overseas – or to areas of Australia where English isn’t the vast-majority language – many of us… Read More ›

  • The Perils of Blogging #37291

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    If you blog from work, someone will find out unless you are scrupulously careful. If your workplace is a political party and you use a photo that could only come from party sources, that is not being scrupulously careful. If… Read More ›

  • Best Mother’s Day present ever

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    So you’ll never guess what I got for Mother’s Day… a new native garden outside my window! This was the previous outlook from my bedroom window: A little bleak, no? More: