My twitter timeline has been talking about Julia Baird’s excellent piece "Twitter opens a new world of abuse aimed at women" and I am not going to take issue with the sentiment behind what Ms Baird has written [...]
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Thinkyness
Welcome to something a little different
After the SPC announcement Paul has a go at exploring what sort of Industry support is out there, and discovers quite a tangled web.
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Australia Day debates normally fall into two main categories of chat - bogan behaviour or it invasion day? The fact that we have these issues at all seems to me that it is not a true celebration of Australia? [...]
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I think we should be using every significant weather event to reinforce the message. But what message? Global Warming and Climate Change hasn’t worked, what about “Human Amplified Climate Change”?
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On a peaceful winter’s morning along the foreshore of Cowes I sat observing daily practices of ‘beachgoers’ as part of my ongoing research into lifestyle migration and place. Of all [...]
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"I mean, if we’re regulating cigarettes and sex and cuss words, because of the effect they have on our younger generation, why aren’t we regulating things like calling people fat?".- Jennifer Lawrence
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I will be upfront here & admit I am not really sure where I am going with this one, guess I am just putting it out there in the hope that responses back will help clarify my thoughts a bit more :)
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The piece Noely wrote on December 12, ‘Does Australia hate intellectuals’, in response to Nick’s ‘Anti-Intellectualism – Does Australia Really Hate Thinkers?’, slipped past the plastering and painting [...]
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Christmas and New Year breaks, a time when many people gather with friends and family, relaxing and decompressing from the year that was.
What. A. Year.
What follows is a bit of a rant, my decompression if [...]
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This morning at about 8.30am at a football stadium in Tottenham, North London, a full time whistle blew in the quarter finals of match between Spurs and West Ham United. The game itself tempered by the usual gloom [...]
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