I'm old enough to know that I don't have any answers, but that won't stop me talking
The decision last week by Western Australian first term Senator Fatima Payman to resign from the Labor Party two years into her six year term and sit (for now) on the cross benches as a result of her stance on the Palestinian state issue has caused a problem for the Labor Party and an ironic …
Continue reading “Secularism, Sectarianism, and Australian Democracy”
I am rather embarrassed to admit this, but many years ago I was friends with a mad keen Collingwood supporter. He was not typical of the rabid Collingwood supporter, mind you: he still had all his teeth, no tattoos, no criminal record, and had recently completed his law degree. We were close enough friends that I …
Continue reading “Compogate – Or Turning the Tables on Kathy Gallagher”
I doubt many people are familiar with the movie Scott Pilgrim Versus The World. Dorky guy who likes video games meets a suitable girl (vaguely goth, likes comic books and video games), but to win her, he must defeat each of her formidable seven ex boyfriends. It is like a series of challenges in a …
When I was nine years old, I became aware of the extent of the Roman Empire, in which Italy, my ancestral homeland, was the dominant part. I felt rather indignant (being ethnically Italian) that Rome did not still rule all shores and hinterlands of the Mediterranean. Without knowing it at the time, I was an Italian …
Continue reading “Irredentism – An Irredeemable & Immature Ideology”
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