Last week on a plane between Sydney and Melbourne, I met a bloke who was heading home from a conference about refugee policy, hosted by the Refugee Council of Australia and the United Nations Commissioner for Refugees regional office Canberra. He works for Hotham Mission’s Asylum Seeker Project, which is doing some excellent work in [...]
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salubrious
On Monday, Andrew Crook had an article in Crikey which included this sentence: Both the CSIRO and Geoscience Australia are listed as “session supporters” of the Association of Mining and Exploration Companies’ annual gabfest, kicking off at the end of the month at Perth’s salubrious Burswood Casino. The following day, the Comments, Corrections etc section carried [...]
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Being a DIC
I love this letter sent to Crikey yesterday (subscriber): The letter is signed by one Brad Stactun, an anagram of ‘Bastard Cunt’. (And for those who came in late on the whole Victorian swearing shamozzle see here) Can anyone decipher the Latin in the crest? It maybe nonsense but we welcome all your most creative translations.
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Karl Stefanović wins ‘Gold Bogan’ award
Channel Nine’s Today program recently reported on the Queen’s landmark visit to Ireland during which the Queen had given a speech at a state dinner. (Yes, those morning shows still have news content!). She opened her speech in Irish, saying “A Uachtarain agus a chairde” (President and friends), a gesture that surprised the Irish president [...]
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A f#@%ing stupid law
Ted Baillieu wasted no time in dragging Victoria back to the 1950s; increasing public funding for non-government schools at the direct expense of government schools, vetoing a Yarra City Council’s decision to set up a safe injecting room in Richmond, preferring instead to harass drug addicts with a higher police presence, and telling his caucus [...]
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