Prop: n. rigid support, esp, not structural part of thing supported; person etc depended on for help or support.
READ MOREApril, 2009
The Pratt cardboard coffin
Since you ask, yes the Pratt coffin thing in today’s Crikey email was my idea. A necessary corrective in an increasingly rose-tinted atmosphere of instant forgiveness for one of the country’s leaders in corporate malfeasance, or did it go too far? Your call.
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Morning commute: 29.04.09
A little late to talk about it, but a lovely enough pedal in. Meanwhile in a small daily adventure in relativity, I am convinced that it is my passing on the Yarraside path the causes the 7.50 train from Flinders Street to I’m not sure where to leave the platform. The coincidence of my arrival [...]
READ MOREWe are the champions … of the world
Nicola Roxon just then on Sky talking swine flu. Asked about our anti viral preparedeness she says we have one of the highest per captita stockpiles of anti-viral drugs in the world. Nice. But where does this Australian thing come from … why is it that in any issue, on any measure, we have to [...]
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Me, my dad and Paul McCartney
I’m sick of being ponderous about asylum seekers, and government, and the press. The tight circle of prejudice, opportunism and human tragedy. So here’s a strangely happy little thing. When I was very much smaller, my father, years dead now, traveled for work to Japan. He returned after some weeks with gifts. Mine was a [...]
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Boat: n. a small vessel propelled on water by oars, engine or sails.
READ MORECrikey editorial: the boat people myth
Mike Steketee in The Australian sets the debate over “boat people” — but strangely not his own paper’s rather alarmist “Rising tide” coverage — in an informed context: The latest report from the UN High Commissioner for Refugees says asylum applications in Australia increased by 19 per cent last year, from 3980 to 4750. How [...]
READ MORESusan Boyle, walkup Grammy
Ok, I’m an evil twisted dwarf, but when I saw this I had two words: Milli Vanilli.
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Morning commute 15.4.09
Moderate inclemency this morning, in a nice way. Enough though, of the wind and gale to keep the bike at home and bring on the train. Soundtrack? Various. This was apt.
READ MOREA few of my favourite things
It is entirely possible that I am sick of Twitter. And Scott McClaren. And Matthew Lloyd. And station performance art. And I didn’t really like The Slap all that much.
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