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  • Surfacing

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    Yes, it’s more pictures from Tasmania! This dolphin and its blowhole was part of a large pod in Adventure Bay on Bruny Island – there must have been at least 50. Unlike the usual mid-grey bottlenose I see occasionally around… Read More ›

  • Words Mean Stuff: thorny language

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    Y’all know I’m picky about words. Dismissing a verbal or textual argument with that piffly lip-noise and a snide “Oh, but that’s just semantics” doesn’t do it for me. Semantics is meaning, and when you’re using words as persuasion, meaning… Read More ›

  • Wednesday Cheezburger

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    from i can has cheezburger.

  • Step up, Rudd: Lib doctors throw down the gauntlet on foreign aid and abortion

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    This may be a watershed: the Rudd government has been challenged to show its true colours on women’s rights. Way back in the twentieth century, the Liberal government faced a situation where a woman-hating theocon, Brian Harradine, held the balance… Read More ›

  • Perhaps I’m the last person in the world to realise this

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    …but I only just found out that the name of Britney’s younger sister, Jami Lynn, is a portmanteau of the names of the parents, Jamie and Lynne. How on earth Britney missed out on either parent’s name is unknown. Perhaps… Read More ›

  • Adding it to the wishlist

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    Feminist Philosophy and Science Fiction – Utopias and Dystopias Judith A. Little (Ed) Amherst, New York, Prometheus Books, 2007 411 pages, ISBN 9781591024149 This accessible and provocative collection of science fiction acquaints readers with cutting-edge gender controversies in moral and… Read More ›

  • Welcome Marion Scrymgour!

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    [image source: SMH] It’s been a busy few weeks for under-represented groups in Australian politics, hasn’t it? My respect to Marion Scrymgour, who today became the first Indigenous Australian to lead a government. She is acting Chief Minister of the… Read More ›

  • Rhapsody in Shoe

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    Who knows why? On a country road in Southern Tasmania, on the way to the Freycinet Peninsula. The title, and taking a photo in the first place, was my son’s idea. (View Large On Black)

  • Being single…stinks?

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    Today’s guest post is from baroquestar. Baroquestar is a 28 year old singing, studying, Australian museum geek with eclectic tastes in reading material. She is a solo mama to one beautiful daughter who likes dogs too, the bigger the better…. Read More ›

  • Culprits

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    I’m seeing more and more variations of this argument lately, especially on American sites: World immigration is a direct response to abortion throughout Europe and North America. Workers from poorer countries are always going to come to replace our lack… Read More ›