February 8, 2010 – 8:00 pm
This weekend took me back to my childhood and errant youth, when I was a member of the St. George Motorcycle Racing Club in Sydney. My Dad and I tracked all over New South Wales going to all manner of bike races, including the last of the Speedway races at the Sydney Showgrounds and beyond.
Posted in Cycling, Fun stuff, Some places I've been, Stupidity, Uncategorized
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Tagged Alice Springs, Arlen Carragher & Nick Howard, Arunga Park Speedway, Australian sidecar champions Mark Mitchell & Tom Golding, Brendon Edge & Cassy Hall, Cameron Miller & Samantha Fidler, Daniel Puddy & Chad Herbert, Joe White & Shane Cramp, Mark Seidel, Robert Branford, Robert Ksiezak, Shayne O'Connell & Steve Sanderson, Sooty Pigram, St. George Motorcycle Racing Club
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February 7, 2010 – 11:50 pm
There are some days that you’d prefer to be digging a ditch than to be a public servant.
Particularly if you were one of the members of Federal Indigenous Affairs Minister Jenny Macklin’s FaHCSIA staff that turned up to the New South Wales Parliament House on the last Thursday of January to face a grilling from [...]
Posted in Australian politics, Northern Territory politics, Stupidity, The Law, The NT Intervention
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Tagged Attorney-General Robert McClelland, FAHCSIA, Federal Indigenous Affairs Minister Jenny Macklin, Law Council of Australia, Ms Cattermole, Ms Webb, Native Title Legislation Amendment Bill (No.2) 2009, New South Wales Parliament House, Northern Land Council, Senate Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs, Senator BARNETT, Senator FEENEY, Senator SIEWERT, the House of Representatives, the Senate, Trish Crossin
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February 1, 2010 – 8:08 pm
We get into incredibly remote and exciting places like the Torres Strait – very few people have been to a place where they can look across to New Guinea while standing in Australia. So they are bonuses but doing the research and making new discoveries, and learning new things about natural history and ornithology and management – all sorts of things…
Posted in Animals, Bird of the Week, Birds, Birds and people, Fun stuff, Some places I've been
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Tagged Adrian Boyle, Boigu Island, Common Paradise Kingfisher, Dave watson, Dr John Ewen, Institute of Zoology, Laura Sissins, Lesser Paradise Kingfisher, London, Monash University, New Guinea, Papua New Guinea, Rohan Clarke, Saibai Island, Torres Strait, Varied Honeyeater
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January 29, 2010 – 2:58 pm
As usual, the locals have the last laugh – and the best eyes for a bird. Just before I left Saibai I had a yarn with Saul Aniba about this most beautiful bird. He told me that he had seen one a few months before – also dead – not far from where we found this latest specimen.
Posted in Animals, Bird of the Week, Birds, Birds and people, Ethnoornithology, Roadkill, Some places I've been
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Tagged Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander bird knowledge, Anoraks to Zitting Cisticola, Boigu Island, Cairns, Common Paradise Kingfisher, Darnley island, Dr Rohan Clarke, Joh Bjelke-Petersen, Mia Kusa River, Monash University, New Guinea, Saibai Island, Saul Aniba, Sean Dooley, Tanysiptera galatea, Torres Strait
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January 25, 2010 – 1:51 pm
Right now it seems that the meaning of “philanthropic”, in South Australia corporate and government circles at least, is a work in progress.
Posted in Australian politics, Cycling, Some places I've been, The Law, Uncategorized
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Tagged Alan Bond, Andre Greipel, Australian Open, Burmah Oil Company, Deed of Undertaking, Isobel Redmond, Kia, Labor Party, Liberal Party, Matthew Doman, Santos, Santos Chief Executive Officer David Knox, Santos' Manager of Corporate Communications, Shorter Oxford dictionary, Social Responsibility and Community Benefits Fund, South Australian Premier Mike Rann, Tour Down Under, Tourism Minister Jane Lomax-Smith
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January 19, 2010 – 6:25 am
With the Texan backing Rann in his re-election bid cycling in Australia has now become entwined with local politics in a way not seen before. Cycling in Australia is now more than just circos y pan, now it is very much about marking out valuable commercial territory, about selling South Australia to itself and putting a very powerful spin on a very local political style.
Posted in Cycling, Religion, Some places I've been
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Tagged Alberto Contador, Astana, Australian Cycling Federation, baño de masas, bogan, Carlos Arribas, circos y pan, El Pais, Freud, Herald-Sun Tour, Janet (“J-Lo”) Lomax-Smith, Mike Rann, Mike Turtur, Pinto, Pro Tour, the Texan, Tour de France, Tour Down Under, World Championships
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January 18, 2010 – 1:34 pm
David Winderlich: I don’t see any reason why they shouldn’t disclose how much they are spending on sportsmen like Lance Armstrong – unless of course they are ashamed of it. But there is also the fundamental question that is paramount in any democracy – which is transparency – why shouldn’t people know these things – what is secret about it? I think the general default position is that everything should be open unless there is a good reason for it not to be.
Posted in Animals, Australian politics, Some places I've been, The Law
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Tagged Adelaide, algal bloom, bottled water, Clipsal 500, David Winderlich, Democrats, Elena Kats-Chernin, Fringe Festival, Kafkaesque, Lance Armstrong, Mark Kurlansky, Mike Rann, South Australian Parliament, the Adelaide Festival, Tour Down Under, WOMADelaide, World Health Organisation
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January 18, 2010 – 12:48 pm
Mike Rann to Crikey: “Any payments associated with teams or cyclists taking part in the Tour Down Under are commercial in confidence. This has been the case since the inception of the race 11 years ago”.
January 12, 2010 – 12:45 pm
Lazhar Chraiti and other Moujahidin were executed in 1962 and buried in an unknown mass grave. Chraiti and other Moujahidin are heroes in the eyes of Abdelwahab and he has produced a documentary DVD (in Arabic) honouring the Chraiti family in particular, and their contribution to the Tunisian struggle for liberation. Chraiti is known in Tunisian folklore as “the Lion of Orbat”. This DVD can be viewed along with other information at: www.lazharchraiti.org
Posted in Religion
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Tagged Abdelwahab, Aljazeera, Arab, Briton, Chaanbi, Djerba, Douz, Douze, El Andaloussi, Fallagua, French, Frommers, Gafsa Palace, Gurindji, Hippo Diarrhytus, Jewish, Kungarakan, Lazhar Chraiti, Medina, mizwid, Moujahidin, Orbat, Phoenician, Sakiet Sidi Youssef, Spanish, Sue Stanton, Susan Sontag, the Lion of Orbat, The Rough Guide to Tunisia, The Tunisia News, Tunisia, Turkish, Youssef Dey
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January 12, 2010 – 12:20 pm
Maybe the last word on what “fake”, “authentic” and “genuine” all mean should be left to ADC’s Tony Athaniou. Athaniou told Yuko Narushima and Joel Gibson of The Age that: “The thing is there’s various interpretations of authentic. Authentic to me means that it is hand-painted.” “Ubanoo is not a real name, it’s a pseudonym for the artist to paint that style.” “The fake or misleading advertising I’ve been doing is for an artist who doesn’t even exist.”
Posted in Aboriginal & Islander Art, Art, The Arts, The Law, Uncategorized
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Tagged Aboriginal art, ACCC, Alice Springs, Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, Australian Dreamtime Creations Pty Ltd, authentic Aboriginal art, Centralian Advocate, Daniel Burdon, Federal Court, Graeme Samuel, House of Aboriginality, Joel Gibson, Justice John Mansfield, National Library of Australia, Pandora web archive, The Age, Tony Athaniou, Trades Practices Act, Ubanoo Brown, Vivien Johnson, Yuko Narushima
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