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Two major news stories over the past few days have gripped Canberra. The first is the alleged rape two years ago, in the office of a government minister in Parliament House, of Brittany Higgins, a junior press secretary, by another employee in the ministerial office, after some major social occasion. Since then, two other women …
Continue reading “Sexual Predators in the Corridors of Power”
I have been working from home most of the time the past 10 1/2 months, with the occasional day each week in the office until the hard lockdown was suddenly imposed in late July, and not too many days back in the office since then. Now we are easing back into what semblance we can …
Continue reading “Home Separation Anxiety, or… Old is the New Normal”
The news today that counterfeiters in Communist China are making fake bottles of Penfolds wines to rip off the gullible locals with more money than sense is unsurprising. It has been going on for ages. The cringeworthy new faux-premium labels based on the Penfolds font are named ‘Penfunils’ and ‘Benfords’. If I did not own …
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I have always been rather skeptical about Crikey, a subscriber only alternative news website which has been in existence since around 2000. It was originally started under the name ‘Jeffed’ (a verb which came into being in late 1992 to describe the various unpopular decisions newly elected Victorian Premier Jeff Kennett was taking) in late …
Elvis Presley’s granddaughter Riley Keogh is an uberbabe. I first heard of her a few months ago when I first heard of an upcoming show she is to star in on Amazon Prime Video: Daisy Jones and the Six. She plays the eponymous character. Daisy Jones and the Six sounded to me like it is …
According to the Worldometer website this morning, 100 million people have now been infected with the covid since the pandemic first broke out some 13 months ago. I expect that by Easter (or not too long after that), this will double to 200 million. I do not want to guesstimate when the current 2.1 million …
After the cool change this afternoon, I went for a walk upstream along the Maribyrnong River from Solomon’s Ford. About 2km up from the ford, a kangaroo hopped across the path and into the long grass just in front of me. Sadly, it was so quick that I did not have time to get the …
Continue reading “Is it lucky when a kangaroo crosses your path?”
The phrase “Land of the Long Weekend” was coined by the late conservative Melbourne psychologist and sociology commentator Ronald Conway, as the title of a book he published in 1976. I have not read that book, but I consider, just like Donald Horne’s 1963 classic The Lucky Country, the phrase itself has passed into Australian …
Continue reading “The Land of the Long Weekend – Reflections on Australia Day”
Aside from my occasional fix of AFL, I am not really that interested in sport, although I wish I had bothered to watch the Indian test team win against the odds in the final batting session of the fourth test today. Reading on my news feed stories about how many of the tennis players and …
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