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…
Sep 29th, 2009
Depending on how you see it, race has either made a comeback or people are realising it had never actually left the stage. Despite all attempts against it, ever since Obama became the Democratic Presidential candidate, race has once again become a political issue in the US. His election to the Presidency was taken to…
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…
Jan 25th, 2006
While Sara is finishing her last week at work, I’ve been trying to read some French articles on biography and sociology. Not easy. Frustrating in fact. So far, it has taken me about 9 hours to read 15 pages academic text, compared to about 15 pages per half hour in English. Being at the library…
Dec 13th, 2005
Don’t over-complicate riots: PM “I don’t think we should over-complicate this,” he said. “Violence, thuggery, loutish behaviour, smashing peoples’ property, intimidating people – all of those things are breaches of the law and I don’t think the actions should be given some kind of special … status because they occur against the background of this…
Dec 12th, 2005
It’s amazing how quick we are to exaggerate the extent of terrorism, yet racism has not been in the public eye for many years…probably since the 80′s. But it is. And this weekend shows it… Racism has always been a legacy of the Australian way, whether it be traditional right or left wing components of…