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Reply from Senator David Fawcett (Liberal Party)
It's the media's fault, apparently, there's really nothing to be upset about ...
( Will be interested to hear reverancepavan's thoughts... ) -
Reply from Senator Bob Day's Office (Family First)
Email reply received today from Family First Senator Bob Day's office (not from the Senator himself). Not exactly enlightening.
( Email that leads me to believe no one actually read the bill in full... ) -
Time to get political - the National Security Amendment Bill (No.1) 2014
It's fair to say I'm not at all happy with the current Australian Government. We have a radical right-wing government who are about as conservative as Stalin, and who uare not overly concerned about people seeing how closely they are stitched to (and controlled by) Rupert Murdoch, Gina Reinhardt and other Australian Big Business concerns. The ( Read more... ) -
When do you walk away?
I've always worked through difficult questions by talking to myself, holding a conversation with a non-existant other (who is also me - I don't have an imaginary friend or believe there is actually someone else there.) I work through plot lines and dialogue for writing the same way. It's freaked out a few housemates over the years, but it's been ( Read more... ) -
Goodbye Colin
Found out this morning someone I love died on the 3rd. Via Facebook. I understand why, and I have no beef with the person who posted it, but it's a shitty way to learn something like this, and it's one of the reasons why I hate how much people have come to use Facebook for scatter-shot communication. I'd probably feel as shocked and upset if I ( Read more... ) -
March in May
Had great, tiring day today, protesting our insane-to-the-point-of-actual-evil government. Met up with some really good friends, we painted a slogan on the bright orange 5m wide banner I made (What Debt Crisis?) and marched. Had lots of ideas for future protesting, like using pavement chalk to write protest slogans on stobie poles (power poles made ( Read more... ) -
Packing
Every year I resolve to be packed ahead of time for leaving for Festival. This year I have 3 times as much packed as I did at a similar close-to-leaving time that I did last year, and I started packing 4 weeks ago.
One problem. This time I'm taking six times as much stuff.
Le sigh.