Surely the election season is upon us. It's the Paul Keating and John Howard ringtones. A must have for the politcally aware person during the lead up to what may well be Howard's last Federal election (win or lose).

Also, Kevin Rudd sings.

I know it's been ages since I've posted and I will post a more detailed update soon, but I just felt a need to hop on and post my take on Australia DayFirst off, whatever you did I hope you had a great time. Mostly though I'm posting this in response to the people who've decided to call it "Invasion Day" and have a hand-wringing experience about it ( Read more... )

This week the American Library Association is holding Banned Book Week, a celebration of the Freedom to Read. It is to encourage everyone to get out there and read literature that might challenge us or might not always be 'socially acceptable'.

Part of the site includes a list of challenged books (where someone has attempted to have a book ( Read more... )

Well, I'm going to post my very much belated report from Queer Collaborations 2006 in Sydney. Frankly, it was a bit of a horror. By day two I had become convinced that the conference had run awry and that it wasn't worth attending any more of it. This will quite probably be the final chapter in my involvement in QC ( Read more... )

I'm debating if I should attend all of Queer Collaborations this year. See, I may suddenly have a better offer. QC runs from the 3rd to the 7th of July, however an Apple University Consortium conference is also running in Sydney from the 5th to the 7th of July. So I could possibly attend some of QC, then skip out and attend the AUC conference as ( Read more... )

As pretty much every Australian will be aware on the 2nd of December Nguyen Tuong Van will be executed by Singapore for trafficking in heroin. This has stirred up considerable talk in Australia and is starting to appear as though it may have a long term effect on foreign relations ( Read more... )

I cannot stand it when people just ignore facts so that something suits their own purposes better. I'm not sure if it was done with intent here or just a lack of proper research, but it's happened all the same ( Read more... )

So QC is over for another year. I've really enjoyed it. I've met some interesting people and made some great friends and I've had a hell of a lot of fun ( Read more... )

So QC kicked off today. It's been quite a road to this conference, but it all seems to have come together really quite well ( Read more... )

It's the largest political scandal in American history. It rocked a nation and the world and has a lasting and profound effect to this day. It involved intrigue, mystery, corruption, politics, shady characters and dark meetings in parking lots. To this day the scandal continues to unfold and reveal new facts. The scandal was the first of the -gate ( Read more... )