Have not heard a thing about the job. I was supposed to know yesterday. I assume they are locking down the person they have chosen before officially rejecting the rest of us. Maybe they are fighting over two candidates. I dunno. But at this point I am assuming I have not got the gig. 

Wow. $290 a day to house a prisoner ( Read more... )

Huh. Tony Abbott is a '10 pound pom'. How come we heard about that all the time with Julia Gillard, but I have never come across this fact about Knight Abbott and I have read books about him?

Actually, I have no idea why I pose that question. I know exactly why this little fact doesn't get the same run it did with Julia.  

I am reading newspaper articles about migrants btw 1945-1950. And the calmness and rationality and sense to the media's approach to examining the white Australia policy is, at least to me, used to the insanity of the migration discussion this this day and age, astonishing.

From Perth's Daily News on 25 Sept 1945. "...White Australia has become a ( Read more... )

So in the course of my research I am going through old news papers online, and the way that I have to do it basically means ticking off the ones I want to search. So I am scrolling through lists of the newspapers that have existed in Australia. And there are a hell of a lot of them that only existed for 1914-1918. Which initially I thought, yeah, ( Read more... )

I am researching a paper for an independent study contract this morning (for about 5 minutes while my friend distracts the slightly sick small) and today I am looking at newspapers articles from 1946 about mothers and welfare. I am down to looking at refugees or single mothers - take the one issue and identify times where we made big legislative ( Read more... )

 My butcher kind of laughed at me the other day when I bought some chicken livers off him. I gather there is somewhere where I can buy cheap and plentiful chicken livers.

Only I don't know where that would be. I think Fred_Mouse once bought some from the meat place next to the Canningvale markets, but that would probably have been when I was at uni ( Read more... )

I hate how they show you what is available, and I hate how it operates.  If you move the window around on your screen at all, it restarts the whole program.

Boooooooo! Knock it off ABC!

I am not a fan of Sydney... but right this moment I am considering moving to Newtown.

Check out this video www.youtube.com/watch  These students rock! This is what I want my kid to be. Well, some of what I want my kid to be.

And this is my sister's local high school I suspect.....

http://www.scarymommy.com/when-you-give-reddit-an-angry-baby/