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Fadden electorate Candidates for election 2022
I'm in one of the safest Liberal seats in the country, so this will be as uninteresting as it was when living in the equally safe Labor seat of Fraser ( Read more... ) -
Queensland Senate voting
This will be updated as I learn more about QLD Senate candidates for the 2022 Federal Australian election ( Read more... ) -
A different take on JK Rowling's 'The Cursed Child'
JK Rowling writes excellent characters and dialogue, but her plots tends to be a bit pedestrian, and the time travel plots appalling. The Time Turner in Prisoner of Azkaban was a cop out, and an unneeded one: she'd have been better off having Draco Malfoy rescue Sirius Black. It makes sense - we know from Chamber of Secrets that Draco wants to help ( Read more... ) -
Pilgrim's Regress Fanfic, Part I.
CS Lewis encouraged children to write their own Narnia stories - something at which I had no skill. My attempts were appalling. (Although my roleplaying game set in Narnia was well received ( Read more... ) -
Dresdeen Files co-op card game: a tactical review
deamondea and ethanthescribe hosted a games night for Don and I with this game last week, and I've since got to read the rules ( Read more... ) -
ATSIEB Elections 2017
Being entitled to vote in for the ACT Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders Elected Body, I thought I'd do so and describe the process ( Read more... ) -
Book reviews: my Christmas Haul.
Was given 3 books for christmas! What a well trained flatmate I have.
From the Ladybird for Adults series, "How it works: The Dog". This book though delightfully takes the mickey out of Ladybird books - as an example, we are introduced to an allergy dog for people allergic to dog hair. The authors claim to have also written "Cooking Your Cat" but ( Read more... ) -
pre-poll voting
So, did a pre-poll vote for the first time ever today ( Read more... ) -
Candidates for the 2016 Federal election ACT Senate Seats
Again, wiki has a page, but only the sitting Senators have links:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candidates_of_the_Australian_federal_election,_2016#Australian_Capital_Territory_2
Labor
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Candidates for the 2016 Federal election Seat of Fenner (was Fraser)
This gets easier every election! Wiki has a page dedicated to all of the candidates here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candidates_of_the_Australian_federal_election,_2016Read more... )