General Interest
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Save the last dance for me
Originally posted on No Place For Sheep: When a performer has reached the age of seventy-nine one can be forgiven for fearing every appearance might be his last, and it was clear at Leonard Cohen’s concert in Brisbane last night that thought has also crossed his mind. Though he is enviably fit (he drops to his… Continue reading
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HECTOR’S DIARY Bali Advertiser, Nov. 13, 2013
His fortnightly diet of worms and other non-religious experiences Skulduggery and Other Local Habits The benefits that accompany living in Bali – or anywhere in Indonesia – far outweigh the demerits of doing so. The culture is inclusive, at least on a superficial level that satisfies most tastes; the people readily return a smile to… Continue reading
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Rough waters and rocky boats, but we’ll get there
This side of the stretch of water over which Australian tourists fly in droves to exotic holiday destinations and considerably smaller numbers of asylum seekers travel in rickety boats in the opposite direction, frequently drowning in the process, it was never clear how the new Abbott government was going to get the Indonesians to stamp… Continue reading
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Asian Nations Angry Over U.S. Embassy Spy Reports
China and Southeast Asian governments would never dream of collecting information for intelligence assessment, of course… Continue reading
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Stranded in the shit field
Originally posted on No Place For Sheep: Shit Field, by poo on you Now and again in a life, one runs into what I like to call a shit field – a series of apparently unconnected events that occur simultaneously, or hard on one another’s heels, all of which share a common theme. It… Continue reading
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HECTOR’S DIARY Bali Advertiser, Oct. 30, 2013
His fortnightly diet of worms and other non-religious experiences Somebody Loves Them Bali Dogs, that is. And the anti-rabies fighter BAWA too, the Bali Animal Welfare Association, which as no one should have missed or failed to remark upon, has come to grief on the treacherous shoals of Bali’s perversely acquisitive and uniquely… Continue reading
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Some Points on the Pension
24 October 2013 Ross Fitzgerald had this piece in the Sydney Daily Telegraph today. It makes a good argument for policy change. I have some views on that too that I’ll blog about later. In the meantime, read on: Government can’t ignore retiring baby-boomers THE year 2011 was the year when people born… Continue reading
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Why does Australia imprison innocent women, children and men?
Originally posted on Oosterman Treats Blog: https://newmatilda.com//2013/10/21/echoes-white-australia What motivates a democratic, peace-time government to imprison innocent men, women and children? Former Liberal MP Judi Moylan looks at the divisive history of Australian border policy. Few matters have been more fiercely debated in the Australian Parliament or more unsparingly ventilated in the media than the recent… Continue reading
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HECTOR’S DIARY Bali Advertiser, Oct. 16, 2013
His fortnightly diet of worms and other non-religious experiences May The Farce Be With You We were going to be nice about it all, really we were. APEC, we mean. It was so important to Bali, after all. All those lovely delegates were sure to be so impressed by the event and the island… Continue reading
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