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No offence to Julia Gillard and I am not being feminist. I also don’t mean the new helicopter style mum, I mean the old-fashioned, commonsense, “Get Over It and Get On With It” style Mum.

Not talking about Tony Abbott here (well not directly), more about the state of our media. Unlike the new NRL rules, I will give our Journalists the benefit of the doubt.

The day after Gillard’s (now famous) 'misogyny' speech I woke up thinking I was in the twilight zone. Everyone I knew was amazed or affected in some way, yet, the morning news and papers barely referred to it, instead focussing on Slipper resigning? I was seriously, WTF?

I am generally apolitical and not particularly interested in playing the Holden vs Ford game we have in our political system, neither the ALP or Coalition truly represent the interests of the Australian electorate. What I do care about is democracy. The Coalition today has edged ahead of the ALP in my [...]

Both Queensland & Federal Parliament has finished for the year and all I can feel is sad. Very Sad. Political Parties are running both our State & Country, NOT elected representatives...

I know this will make me sound petty, but, I am only going to say what a lot of IT Professionals are thinking. How cool is the failure of Click Frenzy?

Many of you may not be aware that today, the 19th of November is actually International Men's Day, and the theme for 2012 is - Positive Male Role Models. I for one can see a lot of irony in that theme in the ‘context’ (gee I love that word NOT!) of the Gillard Smackdown last month.

I would love to know when it became accepted that Australia was an extension of New Zealand? When I was younger I used to think the advantages Kiwis have in this country as opposed to other nationalities was really unfair, and still do.

Just recently I read a great article on a blog I follow called “Twitter: a sugar-hyped toddler in need of a good lie down”. It was very thought provoking and really did remind me of school, where it seems that often if you don’t agree with the most recent social media outrage you can cop a [...]