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…
Jan 30th, 2009
So, Mick Dodson provided a colourful start to his tenure as Australian of the Year by calling on the PM to change the date of Australia Day because Indigenous people see it as “invasion day”. The general idea being that changing the date would make our annual celebration of being Australian more inclusive. Unfortunately, the…
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…