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Author Archives: Eleri Harris

Tasmania: The Movie

If you only see one blockbuster this summer…

Tasmania: The Movie

The chainsaw head massacre scene

Starring Ricky Ponting, Looney Tunes Tasmanian Devil, Bob Brown, and Errol Flynn’s corpse — with a cameo appearance from the Crown Princess of Denmark, Mary Donaldson, and that dude who was in Australian Idol or Big Brother or something. Directed posthumously [...]

US08: On overseas voting and how scary Sarah Palin is

Last week my US voter registration form was returned to me in the mail because I forgot to tick the most important box, the one that says “Are you an American citizen?”. By the time the letter crossed from one side of the planet to the other, voting registration had closed in Washington. Now I [...]

Henson: out of touch artist or evildoer?

I admit I come to the Henson table with a certain level of bias regarding the artistic world. I spent large chunks of my childhood surrounded by mad artists — some of them rather talented painters, photographers, sculptors, knifemakers, blacksmiths, jewelers and assorted crafts people — from whom I primarily learnt the art of tolerance: [...]

Keep our bike lanes sacred

Two weeks ago a woman by the name of Carolyn Rawlins was killed on Swanston Street in Melbourne’s CBD when her front tyre was caught in the tram tracks and a coach failed to see her. Her death has ignited debate about traffic flow through the city and it seems like now every one -car, [...]