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I've been working on a new story for three days now and have only written 979 words. I feel sure I must be missing a tooth or two--it's certainly felt like extracting teeth ( Read more... )

Amongst all the tragedy and heartache coming out of the Bushfires in Victoria, sometimes, there is something to offer a little hope. This picture is one such glimmer.


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Can I just say, my partner rocks. She wrote the following letter, not me. I just asked if I could post it here. This issue needs to get more attention. The action the Government has taken here is without precedent, and needs to be challenged for it's continued discriminatory treatment of same-sex partners.

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Dear Mr. Prime Minister,

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The more I watch the news these days, the more concerned for Australia I become. Take one of tonight's lead stories for instance.

A Muslim school has become the center of a storm, because a former teacher complained that singing of the Australian National Anthem has been banned at the school. This sounds pretty odd when you first hear the complaint ( Read more... )

I had a lovely email awaiting me this morning from one of the ladies at the Historical Society. She would like to meet with me to have a chat about how best my skills can help the museum/society. She says that the skills I outlined in my initial email to her sound like they'd be most useful -- I told her I was employed as an administrative ( Read more... )

I have posted about Australia's homosexual history today over at The Macaronis' blog. Come over and have a look.

 
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I found a list of words on a forum this morning that vary in spelling and or meaning from America to Britain, and since I could think of yet more ways they vary in Australia, I thought that I might post here about them. They are as follows.

American British Australian Antsy Fidgety Antsy, fidgety, niggly, ( Read more... )

I received an email today from a living descendant of Patrick Halligan who was murdered near Rockhampton in the 1860s and whose story was a large part of the inspiration behind The Heart Divided ( Read more... )