Jan 26th, 2010
As much as I would like to, it seems impossible to avoid Australia Day. It’s sights, noises and smells waft in through my windows with the breeze, it’s plastered over most sites on the interweb, the public holiday stares back at me relentlessly from my calendar and, for some reason, people have taken to wishing…
Mark Lopez wrote a piece in The Australian today reassuring advocates and disappointing critics by stating that multiculturalism was not being undermined by the Howard government’s recent changes that included replacing “multicultural affairs” with “citizenship” in the name of the Department that looks after those issues. For those who believe that it signals the collapse…
Jan 22nd, 2007
What a news day!! Obviously everyone is back at work “making” news – the pollies, journos, pundits and wackos have returned from holidays refreshed and reinvigorated for yet another year of playing ping-pong with public opinion between the cringeworthy and meaningful. Three headlines today signalled to me that everyone was “back at their desks” (unlike…