Monthly Archives: March 2009

A quiet word with Julia Gillard

3AW morning grump Neil Mitchell calls this an interview apparently. Listen in and see if you can spot the deputy prime minister.

Morning commute 13.03.09

A David Niven moment on the ride in this morning. The old Glenferrie Oval, the moon, a balloon.

Word of the day

Knit: v. make (garment etc) by interlocking loops of yarn with knitting needles or on a machine.

Miming Peter Costello

I’m cooking dinner for the still partly absent family and keeping an eye on the 7.30 Report over my shoulder, an evening of jobless, Costello and fear. Roll on those lazy hazy crazy days eh?
Today Costello made the papers, again, and then wheeled himself round parliament at better than Howard pace in what is apparently [...]

The Jaspan goes west?

Word has it that the search for a new editor for the West Australian has been narrowed to a shortlist of three, one of them being former Age editor in chief Andrew Jaspan.

Word of the day

Today’s word is:
Fresh: adj. Newly made or obtained.

Why ever do I watch Question Time?

I’m watching Question Time and trying to find something about it that’s positive. Some redeeming feature in this time of multiple crisis and troubling urgency. The PM drones on through Clutch Cargo lips to well beyond the point of ordinary tolerance and on from there to pain. The leader of the opposition rolls to the [...]

I can’t wait.

Honestly, I can’t fucking wait.

Word of the day

Today’s Word of the Day is:
Pin: n. a small, thin, pointed piece of esp. steel wire with a round or flattened head, used (esp. in sewing) for holding things in place,  attaching one thing to another.

Crikey editorial 10.3.09

Every day brings another twist and turn in the phenomenon we have come to know as the Global Financial Crisis. Some days it looks contained. On others it leaps control lines and blazes on anew. Uncontrollable and fierce. All consuming. On top of that economic firestorm is the harm we do every minute to the [...]