- Whose is bigger? (08 Dec 04)
Here's another in my "South is up!" campaign. Sometimes Americans and Australians forget just how big each other's country is. The idea of Buy nothing at Christmas seem to be ...
- Allelulia, humbug! (05 Dec 04)
On NPR's All Things Considered 2 December 2004 (broadcast in Australia on ABC Newsradio) John Boykin asks "Can the 'Christ' Be Kept in Christmas?" For years the retail aspects of ...
- Eureka left and right (30 Nov 04)
This week is the 150th anniversary of the Eureka rebellion. In December 1854 in Ballarat Victoria small gold miners angered by Government taxes in the form of miners' licences and ...
- Morality and mandate (06 Nov 04)
News reports suggest that George Bush won re-election in part because at least a couple of million conservative Christians (who had not voted last time) turned out to vote for ...
- AIDS inaction (04 Nov 04)
The AIDS Action Council of the ACT is community based local Canberra organisation working with AIDS councils throughout Australia. It undertakes community education and awareness to prevent further HIV transmissions ...
- Back to the ballot box / How to run an election (13 Oct 04)
This my 'How to vote card' for the Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly elections on Saturday. The 'Hare-Clark proportional representation system is very fair but has thus far never produced ...
- Signal of summer (06 Oct 04)
In this part of the world the summer begins with the start of the cricket season and the pleasant ritual of the ABC's superb coverage of international matches on the ...
- Educating the club (01 Oct 04)
Government funding for privately operated schools has long been contentious in Australian politics. As part of its current election platform the Australian Labor Party is committed to withdraw funding from ...
- My vote (29 Sep 04)
I listened last night to the main campaign speech by the Australian Labor Party leader Mark Latham. It was a good speech better than the Liberal Party Prime Minister's speech ...
- Sinfully busy (18 Sep 04)
It's been said that its a sin to be too busy. Probably true -- in which case I'm in strife. No. 49 from Unrequited love nos. 1-100 by Judy Horacek. ...
- Intelligent PG-rated dictator (02 Sep 04)
I'm wasting a bit of time playing with online tests none of which I take seriously!It seems that little kiddies shouldn't be reading this site... and in the joke category ...
- Investigator (01 Sep 04)
I've no idea of its validity but according to the Enneagram Institute's free test I'm of the Investigator type also with an inclination to iconoclasm reform and idealism. Fair enough ...
- Criollos (12 Aug 04)
The August 2004 edition of The Atlantic has a beautifully written review by Christopher Hitchens of Borges: a life by Edwin Williamson (Viking). Hitchens quotes from a 1928 address in ...
- Appearances can be (25 Jul 04)
Two pictures of the same slightly famous person tell how revealing yet misleading a single image can be. But both show the same complex human person. Ambiguity is more interesting ...
- Wretched writing for a stormy night (24 Jul 04)
Good for a guffaw are the entries in The Bulwer-Lytton fiction contest "where WWW means 'Wretched Writers Welcome'."An international literary parody contest the competition honors the memory (if not the ...
- Sound familiar? (13 Jul 04)
"The Government being resolved to undertake the political and moral purification of our public life are creating and securing the conditions necessary for a really profound revival of religious life." ...
- Praying and working for peace in Iraq (27 Jun 04)
George Browning Bishop of Canberra and Goulburn has joined the Anglican Primate of Australia Archbishop Peter Carnley to ask Anglican Churches throughout the country to open on 30 June for ...
- Pious Parliamentarians (08 Jun 04)
In this article in the Sydney Morning Herald (6 June) Brian Toohey notes that "by Australian standards practising Christians are over-represented in Parliament." Slightly less than 9 per cent of ...
- Creative Commons criticised (03 Jun 04)
I have made the use of original material on this site subject to Creative Commons Licence. Not everyone likes the idea. See for instance this critique from Australia. ...
- This site is smoke free (31 May 04)
31 May is World No Tobacco Day. The Tobacco Free Initiative of the World Health Organisation has chosen the theme of tobacco and poverty. The contribution of tobacco to death ...
- Capital winners (23 May 04)
Canberra though Australia's national capital is oft maligned by residents of the larger state capitals. Therefore even non-sports fans like myself take some perverse pride when a Canberra team wins ...
- Latham speaks well (13 May 04)
In his Budget reply speech last night Mark Latham the Labor Party Leader of the Opposition voiced the hopes of many Australians for our future government.For the past five months ...
- One word on Iraq (13 May 04)
I have just one word of comment on the Bush administration's performance in and about Iraq. Incompetent.Perhaps as he landed on that aircraft carrier to proclaim a successful end to ...
- Breedin' for Oz? (13 May 04)
The Australian Government released its 2004-05 Budget on Tuesday. Ross Gittens of the Sydney Morning Herald comments: "The family measures . . . actually cost more than the tax cuts. ...
- The cost (25 Apr 04)
Today is ANZAC Day when Australians and New Zealanders remember their dead of wars recent and long past. Scarcely a family is not touched in some way. This is my ...
- Sic transit gloria (29 Mar 04)
It is astonishing the amount of discussion there has been about Ian Thorpe's mishap. But once again Thorpe has it right accepting the disqualification with good humour. "One of my ...
- Oneself in three words (22 Mar 04)
Ian Thorpe is celebrated as a young man of unusual temperament and abilities a leading sportsman with a discriminating eye for interior design fashion and architecture who remains modest and ...
- St. Truman? (07 Mar 04)
... I started to think about God again ... and to understand that ... that everything was His design the old moon and the new moon the hard rain falling; ...
- Boxing the compass (28 Feb 04)
According to The Political Compass I am something of a left-leaning liberal [Economic Left/Right: -7.38; Social Libertarian/Authoritarian -4.82] somewhere in the political vicinity of Nelson Mandela or Gandhi (!?)This image overlays ...
- A dilemna (28 Feb 04)
Ce qui est simple est toujour faux ce qui est compliqué est inutile. What is simple is always false what is complicated is useless. (Paul Valéry) (I've also seen this ...
- Parliamentary foolishness? (28 Feb 04)
The Australian Parliament meets today after the long summer break. The government is buoyed by the completion of the free trade agreement with the U.S. The new leader of the ...
- Guest Book (28 Feb 04)
Please make any comment you like here in the not too much Guest book! End of page ...
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