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Qantas industrial action thread
I notice that Saturday Salon is all about the Qantas industrial action and lockout now, so I thought it might be worthwhile to put a quick post up, a mere coat hanger if you will, on which to hang comments [...]
At Home with Julia: didn’t fail to disappoint
The AGE must have thought At Home With Julia was a doco, because they had an item about it in the News section today. “Slight it certainly was, but not fundamentally unkind – to the Prime Minister at least.” Er, [...]
Cold weather cooking: Pea soup two ways. #2 – Pea and Ham
Well, there you go. Typical, isn’t it? I publish the first instalment, vegetarian pea soup, saying it’s perfectly suited to the freezing winter weather, and what happens? 20 – 22 degrees and blue skies in Melbourne for the best part [...]
Cold weather cooking: Pea soup two ways. #1 – Vegetarian
What’s nicer (don’t answer that!) than a warming bowl of pea soup in winter, especially the icy depth of winter we’re experiencing in Melbourne now with breezes alternating between antarctic (southerly) and alpine (northerly). I love soups like these because [...]
The Victorian State Budget: “What the…?”
In the Victorian State budget brought down yesterday, the Baillieu government was keen to tell us that we were in for austerity in education spending – they’re aiming for over $300 million in cuts in the next 4 years “in [...]
Earthquake in Christchurch: Link Farm and Open thread
I can’t imagine there is anyone reading this who doesn’t know what happened yesterday. Just in case, here’s a link. There is a DFAT hotline, 1300 555 135, for enquiries about friends or family. At Hoyden about Town, Mary has [...]
Let’s call this for what it is: terrorism.
A US congresswoman has been shot at point blank range at a meeting in Tucson, Arizona. Democrat Gabrielle Giffords is in critical condition and a nine-year-old girl is dead. A US congresswoman is among at least 10 people who have [...]
Wednesday Whimsy
Fantasy and fighting and sword-sorcery-dragon stuff usually bores me to sobs, but my whimsy of the week (Via Alas, a Blog) is this charmer of an animation made with open-source software. (Quoting Tigtog): Please share any bits and pieces you [...]
The gates of hell are open wide, with a nice fresh coat of paint in Federation colours
The A-G has just announced that after much deliberation the Government has decided we’re not going to have a national Bill of Rights. We’re going to have a Framework instead, apparently. What that would mean I’m not sure. (My guess: [...]
R-E-S-P-E-C-T, Find out what it means
You know when a government come up with something that just really stinks of “cooked up by a PR company”? To give him credit, our State Premier John Brumby took on board that the recent attacks on Indian students and [...]
Education Revolution: A complete 360
Even in those heady piñata-bashing weeks of November 2007, I don’t think any of us were expecting the Rudd/Gillard government to be some kind of paragon of progressivism. By then, I was already low expectations R Us. Simply not being [...]
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