I Love A Sunburnt Country
rac·ism [rey-siz-uhm]
–noun
a belief or doctrine that inherent differences among the various human races determine cultural or individual achievement, usually involving the idea that one’s own race is superior and has the right to rule others.
Many, many people have an odd view of racism (the strangest being “whites against everyone else”), but there’s the definition right [...]
Shut Up, Whiners
Every year, on 26 January, Aussies celebrate Australia Day.
Back when I was a kid, Australia Day meant that you piled into the car with your parents and siblings and you all made your way down to the foreshore and you spent all day there.
Mum would break up a chook around about 6pm and because you’d [...]
Butt the Fuck Out, America
People from Australia, Bermuda, Bangladesh, Canada, Ireland, Scotland, Kenya, India, Sri Lanka, South Africa, Pakistan, Netherlands, West Indies, England, New Zealand, and Zimbabwe know all about the friendly competitiveness that all these countries enjoy when it comes to cricket.
Enter America – who knows pretty much fuck all about the sport and did anyone else notice [...]
Fatal Attraction – Sour Grapes
People who don’t take account for their own actions have always pissed me off, but this woman takes the cake.
I ask the question: If a single man takes up a relationship with a married woman, who is more to blame? The single man with no marital ties who’s looking to get his end wet? Or [...]
Oh no you di’nt!!!
Geof got fired today from his voluntary job, but his gutless boss didn’t do it himself, he got other people to turn up AT THE DOJO and sort it out there.
There are people that aren’t turning up anymore because they were only coming to the classes because Geof was Sensei and the kids love him.
I’ll [...]
No Fear
When I was younger, I used to listen to older people talk about “the old days” and I’d roll my eyes and I swore to myself that I’d never do that, but things these days are just out of control, and now I’m missing MY old days. My old days weren’t Huck Finn perfect and [...]
The prize doesn’t always go to the most deserving
There recently was a death of a 98 year-old lady named Irena. During WWII, Irena got permission to work in the Warsaw Ghetto as a Plumbing/Sewer specialist, but she had an ‘ulterior motive’.She knew what the Nazi’s plans were for the Jews, so Irena smuggled infants out in the bottom of the tool box she [...]
And now a word from our sponsor
I’ve not been on for a while. Problems with the family tend to make a lot of other things take a backseat, and this was one of those things that has grown a little mouldy, but that’s going to change.
Now that I’m back and willing and able to mouth off about all and sundry, I’d [...]
Health Care in Australia
Cross-posted from Multiply and also published and headlined in Subversify, with some editing by the e-magazine.
While it’s far from perfect, the health care system that Australians have is still worth mentioning.
I’m doing this so the people screaming about death panels with the proposal of the US health care system can see how ridiculous they’re being.
Before [...]
Proud and Outraged
Proud to be an Aussie, but disgusted (once again) at being a part of the human race.
An Australian town with deep historical ties to Japan has severed its sister-city relationship with a Japanese village to protest an annual dolphin slaughter, civic leaders said Monday.Councillors in the remote West Australian town of Broome voted unanimously to [...]
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