Month: September 2015

• HECTOR’S DAIRY Bali Advertiser, Sep. 30, 2015

  His fortnightly diet of worms and other non-religious experiences Rabid Response An eight-year-old boy from Batur Tengah in Bangli died of rabies in mid-September, and a woman has died in Buleleng from the disease, the latest victims of the seven-year outbreak of the disease in Bali. Their deaths are yet another tragic reminder that the […]

  8degreesoflatitude

  September 30, 2015

  Animal Welfare, Australia, Bali, Festivals, Politics, Rabies

  Andrew Robb, Animal Advocacy, Julia Gillard, Julie Bishop, Kevin Rudd, Malcolm Turnbull, Penang, Rabies deaths, Sax Ban, Tony Abbott

• HECTOR’S DIARY Bali Advertiser, Sep. 16, 2015

  His fortnightly diet of worms and other non-religious experiences A Serious Disagreement In the 1992 movie The Last of the Mohicans there’s a lovely standoff between Hawkeye the frontiersman and the rather regimentally doltish British Major Duncan Heyward in which Hawkeye says, “One day, Major, you and I will have a serious disagreement.” It’s a […]

  8degreesoflatitude

  September 23, 2015

  General Interest

• HECTOR’S DIARY Bali Advertiser, Sep. 2, 2015

  His fortnightly diet of worms and other non-religious experiences Heading for the Hills Last year an unavoidable detention in Australia – its cause was medical, not custodial, in case any among the Diary’s more liverish readers might snigger and wonder – meant we were not among the 126, 000-plus attendees reported to have crowded Bali’s […]

  8degreesoflatitude

  September 1, 2015

  Animal Welfare, Art, Bali, Books, Bureaucracy, Charity, Environment, Festivals, Indonesia

  Adrian Vickers, Andreas Harsono, Boob Barers, Chigozie Obioma, Christina Lamb, Delphine Robbe, Dog Culling, Emily Britto, Lempad of Bali, Lonely Planet, Man Booker Prize, Michael Chabon, Miles Franklin Award, Moshin Hamid, Mpho Tutu, Pulitzer Prize, Schapelle Corby, Sophie Laguna, Stella Prize, Steve Palmer, UWRF 2015, Waterman’s Awards