Archive for the 'Devastating lows' Category

Ben Franklin, where are you now?

Wednesday, April 26th, 2006

Not totally unexpected news in the paper this morning:

But last year Mr Howard said ID cards were back on the agenda because the world was now a very different place.
Concern about individual rights had to be balanced against protecting people from terrorism, he said.
“You have to put that against the right all of us have […]

Get your priorities right

Monday, April 17th, 2006

This expression was one of my parents’ favourite admonitions of my teenage years. Not that it ever had any positive effect then or now, as evidenced by the fact I have spent the whole weekend hanging out and having a good time, and posting flickr photos of course, rather than dealing with my looming and […]

Danna Vale, Leadership, Statistics….

Tuesday, February 14th, 2006

This makes me ill in so many ways, but I’m going to stick to just two of them here.
According to this story in today’s smh government backbencher (and let’s not forget, former minister) Danna Vale has publicly commented
“I have read…comments by a certain imam from the Lakemba Mosque [who] actually said that Australia is going […]

Proud Legacy

Monday, February 6th, 2006

Almost 10 years ago now John Howard was elected. One of his mantras at the time was that “political correctness had gone too far”. And so he began the process of rolling back the process of enlightenment that had been happening in Austrlia since the early seventies. And with very few exceptions, none really, he […]