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This morning on Australian Agenda on Sky News they actually raised the question of Tertiary Education, well Peter van Onselen did anyhow. What should have been a good segment, discussing policy for a change, ended up Craig Emerson getting cranky whilst defending the right of kids less privileged than [...]

Every man & his dog has given up Labor as a dead loss for the election in September. I am not so sure, John Howard was pretty much in that position at one stage too and it was only the intervention of ‘Children Overboard’ & ‘Twin Towers’ that saved his butt.

I appreciate that you are most likely receiving an awful lot of correspondence in regard to this proposed legislation. I also understand that not a lot of time has been allowed for it. Please, seriously consider allowing the legislation to go through as it is in the best interests of the PUBLIC, [...]

On the weekend @Drag0nista wrote a very good post that unfortunately did not get the attention on Twitter that it really deserved called “The voter doesn’t always know best”. In fact I would go one step further than Drag0nista and say that the voters, in general, actually don’t give a shit at [...]

OMG! Media Reform - The sky is falling in, Freedom of the Press is being attacked, The Government is trying to ‘Gag’ the media, “Growing anger at 'Soviet' media reforms”, “Gillard’s Henchman Attacks Our Freedom” (Great Mao photoshop on that one), I could carry on, though my personal [...]

Yes it's a shame that Google Reader is going (Powering Down Google Reader), especially as I have been such a heavy user over the years, but for heavens sake its a free program. Yes Google has a few dollars in the bank, and could easily finance reader until the end of religion, but nobody is forcing the [...]

Ok, I know that the Melbourne Storm players would never be tacky or ill-disciplined enough to raise the issue, as it is not 'sportsmanlike', so I will for them... Cronulla Sharks are in a world of poo, even if you don’t follow sport, you have seen it on the news and not in the sports section at [...]

No-one cares, no-one is listening. We are not even on the radar. To get some notice for the issues we have, the only choice is to shatter the ‘safe-seat situation.

Being an old fashioned sort of girl, I hit the dictionary for definition of liberal and you know what... The political party we call the “Liberal” do not seem to fit the definition that the trusty old Oxford Dictionary shows me. Let’s see...