8degreesoflatitude

Richard Laidlaw on things that interest, engage and enrage

  • SOME NECESSARY INFORMATION

    28 February 2012   Statement   Australia supports Indonesia’s territorial integrity   Australia is fully committed to Indonesia’s territorial integrity and national unity, including its sovereignty over the Papua provinces. This is a fundamental obligation of the Lombok Treaty between Australia and Indonesia.   The meeting being held by the International Parliamentarians for West Papua […]

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    February 28, 2012
    General Interest
    Australia, Indonesia, West Papua
  • HECTOR’S DIARY Bali Advertiser, Feb. 22, 2012

    A Fine Weekend Brad and Siska Little’s Bali Life Foundation is getting a giant helping hand from Karma Kandara Resort at Ungasan on the Bukit. On the weekend of February 24-26 the resort is hosting its first Bali Life Foundation Weekend in support of a children’s home – founded by Australian surfer Brad and his […]

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    February 27, 2012
    General Interest
  • It Might Work in Upper Gumtree

    From the Australian Greens’ media team today, Feb. 9, 2012 Libs, Nats and Labor fail on supermarket duopolyThursday 9 February 2012 The Liberal, National and Labor parties today failed to act on their own words in voting down a motion that calls on the government to direct the ACCC and Productivity Commission to take the […]

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    February 9, 2012
    Australia
  • HECTOR’S DIARY Bali Advertiser, Feb. 8, 2012

    Give Me Some Lava Big Apple expat, Nagacia jewellery designer and FOH (Friend of Hector) Tricia Kim has added an enterprising string to her bow. She has designed some specially branded logo charms for a new snip, clip and stick salon in Johannesburg, South Africa.  We’ve seen photographs of them and they’re beautiful. The new […]

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    February 8, 2012
    Bali, Indonesia
    Erotica, jade richardson, Lava, Meghan Pappenheim
  • Something in the Air

    They’re always at it at Ubud, or so it seems; thinking about navel engagements, that is. A delightful piece by Marie Bee in the latest edition of La Gazette de Bali – the great French language monthly journal for the Francophone community – discusses what one can do when it is the saison des pluies […]

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    February 3, 2012
    Art, Australia, Bali, Indonesia, Writing
    Hector’s Diary, jade richardson, Media, Ubud
  • How to Regulate the Currency

    Super Idea   Proposals for a redenomination of the rupiah which have resurfaced from Bank Indonesia are essentially sensible and should be welcomed. There is however one difficulty with the proposal – insofar as the details are known – to knock three zeroes off the currency under which Rp1000, Rp2000, Rp5000, Rp10,000, Rp20,000, Rp50,000 and […]

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    February 3, 2012
    General Interest
  • An Age-Old Question

    An Age-Old Question

    When are you too old to be useful?

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    February 3, 2012
    General Interest
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