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If you live in the Batman electorate and support same-sex marriage, you should fill in this survey :)

Same Sex Marriage Survey set up by Martin Ferguson MP

(Some of you probably will have already seen this link elsewhere, but I wanted to make sure that no one misses out...)

Fearnley fury over Jetstar wheelchair policy

Jetstar has apologised to Paralympian Kurt Fearnley after he criticised the airline for making him check his personal wheelchair in with his luggage ( Read more... )

Boys' names better for girls

The researchers rated each name's masculinity by comparing the number of females versus males with that name in the state. They also controlled for income and class ( Read more... )

The survey can be found here.

My Victorian Waterway Survey ( Read more... )

Article about skating babies, and the clip on Youtube.

Teen births and STDs spiked under Bush

But supporters of abstinence-based education said the report showed there was too little, not too much emphasis on discouragement of sex before marriage.

*snort*

This morning I had breakfast with a friend and we wandered down High St afterwards, and we went into a boutique wool shop. They had skeins of handspun silk dyed in various colours. I couldn't resist the aqua-teal-silver skein...


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I didn't go to bed until almost 7am this morning *cough* and slept until 2pm. It's winter solstice tomorrow, which means today the sun sets at 17:08.

I've only had 3 hours of day time today. *grumble*

At least as I said this morning, it's good practice for me adjusting to an European time-zone.

States blacklist 'flu-source' Melbourne

Victoria has been blacklisted as the country's swine-flu capital, with children who travel to Melbourne to be banned from school for seven days when they return home ( Read more... )