Never Mind the Frolykz, Here’s Weekend Wonderland!

Welcome to Weekend Wonderland!
The place where we get to unwind after another tumultuous week.
Yet again the share market has been all over the place, as has the Aussie dollar. Reports out this week suggest the economic meltdown is about to claim thousands of scalps in the banking and finance industry.
Meanwhile, the Liberal party is still [...]

Spot the real Queen competition!

Following on from our “spot the drag queen” competition, I am pleased to announce the next mind-bending brain teaser – “Spot the real Queen” competition.
Here’s how it works. Below are two pictures of well known public figures. Despite their remarkable similarities, one is an increasingly irrelevant Liberal party politician in Australia while the other is [...]

What does Kevin Rudd stand for?

Traditionally Labor has been “the battler’s party,” with a focus on protecting the interests of workers who tend to fall into the lower to middle income categories.
The party has also been traditionally more ‘liberal’ (in the true sense of the word) than conservative parties and championed equality and an end to discrimination in the workplace [...]

Internet Censorship Will Haunt Rudd Government

During the early noughties I was teaching Year 12 English Studies at Katherine High School in the Northern Territory. A very useful website for studying Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice was The Republic of Pemberley. One year the site was blocked by the NT Department of Education. Apparently their black list was outsourced to a [...]