‘News’ Archives
Look, we’re on TV
Australia's a great place. Just ask Oprah. She thinks so and she's never wrong. Or so most of the inhabitants of the first world think. However there is one thing that is giving me a little cultural cringe about our fair land and that is our [...]
Online shopping–how unAustralian
Gee my heart bleeds for Gerry Harvey. He must have had the worst Christmas ever what with all we evil, self-serving, selfish, yes selfish Australians using on-line shopping to the detriment of the profits of multi-million dollar retail giants such [...]
Of drought and flooding rain
For those of you who are regular readers of this blog then you'll probably be aware that I have posted some entries that reflect perhaps somewhat negatively on the Queensland city of Rockhampton. I'm allowed to. I grew up there and had a lucky [...]
Vale Mr Squiggle
Mr Squiggle died this week. Well not really Mr Squiggle, but his creator Norman Hetherington. He was 89 which just goes to show that people who go round doing lovely things like drawing upside down pictures for children are destined for long and [...]
Unlock your daughters. Assange is behind bars.
I'll sleep safe tonight knowing that international terrorist and serial rapist (heavy irony very intended) Julian Assange has been captured by Interpol. If only they could have that sort of success with Obama bin Laden, the FBI top ten wanted list [...]
Diplomacy is a synonym for gossip
Gosh this Wikileaks business has been embarrassing hasn't it? For all their talk of an international crisis what's mostly emerged is that the US and its diplomats are nothing but a big group of gossips. Sort of like a group of teenage girls with [...]
Gay marriage, Sodom and Gomorrah and people turning into salt
There are a few things that get me all het up. People who cut me off on the road, shop assistants who ignore me so they can continue their absolutely riveting conversations about their social lives and those horrible marketers who accost me in the [...]
Would you be offended if a stranger felt your vagina in public?
I got a pat down as I went through an airport security checkpoint a couple of weeks ago. Can't remember where, but it was overseas. This has never happened to me before. Usually, if I set off the alarm as I step through the scanner they pull me [...]
Grog, sex, drugs–it must be schoolies
Gosh this schoolies business is big isn't it? It's a good idea, too, sending a group of 17 year olds down to the Gold Coast, unsupervised, full of repressed energy and hormones, a head full of redundant mathematical formula and letting them loose. [...]
William, Kate and the Curse of the Engagement Ring. A Royal Mystery.
Prince William's finally proposed to Kate Middleton. The Queen said yes (apparently it's the most important thing), William went and asked Mr Middleton's permission (he said yes too, as if he would have said no) and then finally William asked Kate [...]
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