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  • Pell draws lines

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    The great tradition of religious tolerance in Catholic parochial schools in New South Wales is under fire. Many thousands of children of all faiths have been educated in a system often chosen by parents due to a complex perception of… Read More ›

  • Invisible Illness Bingo.

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    I’ve posted before on my experience with invisible disability, and linked to amandaw on the “But you don’t look sick!” phenomenon. And for further background, everyone should read the “Open Letter to Those Without CFS/Fibro” at Not Done Living. Now… Read More ›

  • We’ve gone over to the yellow side

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    Images generated by The Simpsonizer. I couldn’t get the software to play nice and generate a background picture that I could put the whole family into (unlike Lauredhel’s effort), but here we are as icons at least.

  • I love the smell of desperation in the LibNats

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    Y’know, it’s one thing to express doubts about how long the fairly bland Kevin Rudd can continue to successfully present himself to the electorate as an exciting breath of fresh air. It’s another thing entirely to call the man “a… Read More ›

  • Hey, we can say it

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    An attack has been made on the Australian media from the front page of Life Decisions International (LDI), whose domain name is the far more accurate fightpp.org (PP being the USA’s Planned Parenthood, the family planning organisation that offers comprehensive… Read More ›

  • Sunday Night Quiz

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    Here’s a Sunday Night Quiz for you! What is it? (yes, some of you may already know. Don’t give it away, eh?)

  • Timewaster of the weekend

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    Created using the HeroMachine Superhero Generator

  • Soundbites on YouTube

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    Politicians around the world are gingerly using YouTube to make policy statements, or maybe just to get their soundbites out there while avoiding having to have a press conference. Now some Catholic seminarians have parodied the Mac vs PC ads… Read More ›

  • Travelling Blamer

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    That’s some great blaming by my friend baroquestar and her trusty digital camera. Check it out here.

  • Nassssty sysssssstem, we hatesssss it we does

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    Why on earth would a telco have an online registration system for prepaid SIM cards which doesn’t accept street numbers with letters (eg 29B) or hyphenated surnames? And why on earth would a telco with such a bizarre system then… Read More ›