Whose god do I have to screw to get elected around here?

I really should start off by saying that I’m an educated and employed white male from a developed economy.
This means I really have no remit to have an opinion about absolutely anything, let alone gender, seeing as though my ilk is arguably to blame for the majority of the problems in the world (though in [...]

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I’ve started blogging on an external site, the Insiders Blogs based around the ABC’s Sunday morning TV political treat, the Insiders.
You can check out my first post to the site here. Essentially it’s lamenting that the host of the show missed good opportunities to lynch a federal senator about his shenanigans.
It might not be that accessible if you’re not [...]

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Alright. It’s been a seriously long time since I blogged. That doesn’t mean that I haven’t been thinking about it. In fact, on my whiteboard I have a list of titles for posts that I’ve been meaning to write. This is the list:

iphone killed the electronic dictionary
Alvin and the Chipmunks vs mixed race marriage
Brittany Murphy [...]

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It’s a pretty obvious time of the year to write about food. December is the one month of the year where I barely need to go to the supermarket. As long as I have some fruit or milk or muesli to have for breakfast, all of the other meals seem to take care of themselves. [...]

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The leadership spill in NSW last week which ended up with Kristina Keneally replacing Nathan Rees has brought up a problem that I have with Australia’s political system: someone can become the leader of a government without being voted for by the people.
I know that technically, when we vote in a lower house election we’re [...]

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Have I mentioned before that I have a massive crush on Naomi Klein? It’s massively superficial. I’m just crazy for the ideas in her head and the way she puts them into sentences and paragraphs.
She’s written a couple of articles recently on the upcoming Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen.
The first one was originally published in [...]

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Over the past couple of weeks I’ve been noticing that the government has been rolling out the propaganda machine for the armed forces and the war in Afghanistan.
Before the NRL Grand Final, a Black Hawk helicopter from the 6th Aviation regiment flew into the stadium, nodded its nose to Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, turned three [...]

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Something that’s troubled me in recent years is knowing exactly what to do. Being a white middle-class educated reasonably intelligent male in a developed country leaves me with practically unlimited possibilities. In terms of career and leisure pursuits I can do virtually anything that I can conceive. Admittedly, I’m getting a bit old and fat [...]

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I’m getting a bit sick of all the beat up about how much money we’re going to lose if Indian students stop coming to Australia. My main gripe is the impression being given that they are going to stop coming to Australia because of the violent attacks on some of them.
What a load of crap.
Basically, [...]

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Since the recent protests by Indian students in Melbourne and Sydney, the media spotlight has been on Australia’s international education industry. It’s an export industry estimated to be worth around $14 billion a year, and the industry that I’ve earned my living from for the last four years. I started working as an English teacher [...]

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