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I'm watching The Dismissal and remembering that, hey yeah, Rudd was meant to be The Next Whitlam. He kind of really followed that script a little too well... (leadership spill, sacked by the governor-general, potaeto, potahto) And now I'm wondering how Twitter would have coped with this all back in 1975... I think it would have been to political ( Read more... )

If you're one of those not-Australians who are scratching their heads over today's political drama-lama, this is a fantastic post on how it can happen. Of course, in a lot of polls Kevin Rudd was actually ahead as preferred PM (over both Julia Gillard and Tony Abbott), and I keep being told that the reason this is a First Time Ever (I keep saying ( Read more... )

We have a new Prime Minister, Julia Gillard. Who looks just like Tilda Swinton. I'm waiting for the press conferences before I shower and head off to doctor appointments. I can't help but feel like there has been a case of political suicide here with having a spill outing a first term PM in an election year, but right now I'm all about anything ( Read more... )

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Always the way: last Monday was the day that kind of set off a very bad week indeed, and when I came home there was a severe absence of crack-like fanfiction to help distract me and cheer me up ( Read more... )

On the fifth of November last year, truthmaker posted a little Doctor Who story called What Mine Eyes Have Seen, a story that makes me tear up just thinking about. I kinda clicked very early on exactly what was going on in said story, but I'm not going to say it here. I'll let you read it ( Read more... )

Watching The 7.30 Report this evening (yesterday?), I have to say that this was one of the most disturbing things I have seen this year.It's been called the monstrosity of the century, and certainly if it happened in a developed nation it would fill the newspapers and TV screens. In the Democratic Republic of Congo, or DRC, women are being raped ( Read more... )

"Some parameters as preface: this isn't about yelling and this isn't about politics, and this isn't really just about Prop 8."

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I have no use for my uterus or want for it to be occupied, but if I did, I'd have his spawn as tenants even if the camera changes always really disturb me

My addiction during the last week and a half of the US presidential election was The Race Race on Triple J. Their favourite soundbite was Barack Obama's "I Like Pie" speech, which they intercut with another famous speech in their second episode.

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