Comments on: I won't add my condemn to your condemn XXIX

By: Alastair

Alastair — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 05:35:46 +0000

I continue to condemn Peter Garrett and the Federal Government for cutting off all funding to the Australian National Academy of Music which will result in the closure of the Academy at the end of this year .

This could have been handled in so many different ways which would have allowed ANAM to stay open. The closure of ANAM is uneccessary and will be detrimental to the training of classical musicians in this country.

I notice that the matter has been receiving some attention in Federal and State parliaments:

http://alexmillier.wordpress.com/2008/11/11/anam-in-parliament/

I congratulate the members of parliament who have brought this matter up before their respective parliaments and are lobbying to keep ANAM open.

I would again encourage anyone who feels that ANAM should be kept open, to consider signing the online petition.

http://www.petitiononline.com/saveanam/petition.html

Thanks very much to anyone who has already done so, and even more thanks to anyone (like Paul Burns) who has passed the message about this topic on to others.

By: Quog

Quog — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 04:58:14 +0000

I’m turning into a grumpy old man, I will not tolerate bad service from the likes of Telstra.

We’re not in Zimbabwe, Reason. And it’s my tax dollars that built Telstra, and my consumer dollars that keep it functioning. They can damn well give me some service in exchange.

By: Reason

Reason — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 22:58:11 +0000

You know, if you were living in Zimbabwe you wouldn’t have a temporary cable.

By: Quog

Quog — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 13:26:07 +0000

I condemn Telstra who replaced a failed 70 year old cable from the pit to my house with a “temporary” cable back in June and promised to come back and trench in a permanent replacement. 5 months later and we still can’t find out when their coming to put in the permanent cable. And the temporary cable causes our ADSL to fail to sync most days and when it does work, go glacially slow. I also condemn them for not caring that the temporary cable crosses above ground over a public footpath, thus causing a hazard to the walking public, so much so that the local council had to come and put warning signs and traffic cones on the cable.

I suspect they will put the permanent cable in sometime in 2012. Probably on a Tuesday. And they probably won’t warn me they’re coming and still expect me to stay home from work to let them into the house to connect it.

By: Lefty E

Lefty E — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 08:20:23 +0000

Holy crap! Shamahan condemns Julie Bishop http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,24647513-17301,00.html

By: FDB

FDB — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 05:27:10 +0000

Adam Bandt has to be a chance.

He HAS to.

http://www.makemelbournegreen.com/council-elections-2008/adam-bandt/

By: Helen

Helen — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 05:11:56 +0000

I condemn that desk for making my head hurt.

By: Helen

Helen — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 05:11:25 +0000

Danny, as I understand it, the frontrunner is Robert Doyle.

*Headdesk*
*headdesk*
*headdesk*

Expect more of the same old same old for quite a while.

By: David Irving (no relation)

David Irving (no relation) — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 22:52:45 +0000

Bemsha Swing, the only differences between canned and dried chickpeas is the time until they’re usable and the cost difference.

If you want a chickpea curry as well as hoummos, why not just rehydrate and cook twice as many?

By: danny

danny — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 21:24:02 +0000

Helen: is there a real chance Melbourne could get a Greens mayor?