It's bloody Invasion Day.

( My rant on the farce that is Australia Day. )

Well, I guess I'll try writing some kind of normal entry ( Read more... )

Are there depths to which current affairs shows will not stoop? An ad on TV for a recent episode of Australian current affairs show Today Tonight: "for the first time, Asian immigration [to Australia] has overtaken European immigration, creating a country within a country. What does this mean for future generations? Plus, the call to stop the ( Read more... )

It seems that some people are set on ending 2005 in the stupidest way they possibly can. No, I'm not merely referring to your typical embarrassing Christmas/New Year's Eve drunks, though their stench of booze is not particularly endearing. I am instead referring to the idiots with no brains and even less sense who decided that a great summertime ( Read more... )

In my first entry in the political series, I outlined the basic foundation of my beliefs that is summarised in the well-known phrase "do unto others as you would have done unto yourself". Another important belief that forms the basis of my opinions is one I have written about in recent months, that of equality ( Read more... )

I imagine some of you are surprised that I haven't commented on Hurricane Katrina yet, considering that it's been the story of choice for media outlets around the world. The simple reason for this is that I haven't had much to add - at times I was incoherent with shock at the devastation and rage at the squalor the evacuees lived in due to the ( Read more... )