All the Single Laddies. Dancers Purple Haze do Beyonce. All sorts of awesome. H/T: Hathor
Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall, has broken her left leg while hill-walking in Scotland, Clarence House has said. The duchess, 62, suffered a twisted fracture of her left fibula when she fell on Wednesday. Clarence House said although doctors advised her not to put any weight on the leg, she would continue to carry out [...]
Mercurius at Larvatus Prodeo has a post about Tony Abbott’s triathlon attempt in which he criticises Abbott as an “overachiever”: Then there’s the overachievers. The people who are compensating for something. The people trying to fill the existential emptiness and smother those feelings of inferiority with accolades, approval and applause. Mercurius isn’t alone in criticising [...]
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Tagged Australian culture, Australian diaspora, Australian education, Australian politics, bob hawke, Education, Larvatus Prodeo, overachieving, Tony Abbott
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O wad some Power the gift tae gie us To see oursels as ithers see us! It wad frae mony a blunder free us, An foolish notion. From Robert Burns, To a Louse The course Burns commends has, of late, become unfashionable. Instead of observing others unlike ourselves and reporting back, we have been enjoined to [...]
February 4, 2010 – 2:18 am
An Australian banker is in hot water after being filmed looking at semi-nude photos of a model while a colleague was doing a television interview nearby. He could be seen clicking on photos of Miranda Kerr in the background of the Channel 7 interview on Tuesday with an analyst for Macquarie Private Wealth. The footage [...]
January 17, 2010 – 1:03 am
I have never seen this film, and I’m not sure I want to see it either, as it seems to consist of humour that makes you excruciatingly uncomfortable at the same time as being funny. Of course the premise is unbelievable: it is economically impossible for a state with significant chattel slavery ever to develop [...]
January 15, 2010 – 6:08 pm
Richard Ackland has an interesting piece in the SMH on the laws protecting journalists versus the laws protecting bloggers, with some thoughts about the blurred line between journalism and blogging as well. He says: Justice William Gummow of the High Court asked the question last year during an appeal in Ray Chesterton’s defamation action against [...]
January 14, 2010 – 7:12 am
Via Jason Soon’s Sick of Politics blog I came across an interesting piece by Clive Hamilton on talented artists who commit crimes. Like Jason, I think it’s probably the first time I’ve been in unqualified agreement with Clive. Wonders will never cease. Hamilton says: Should artistic talent place those who possess it above the law? [...]
January 5, 2010 – 6:16 am
Well, finally managed to drag myself off to see James Cameron’s Avatar, which — it’s fair to say — divides people. In the red corner (US political colour configuration), we have Miranda Devine irritated at untoward greeniness, while in the blue corner we have this selection of links over at Hoyden About Town. Other (slightly) [...]
December 24, 2009 – 8:38 pm
Prince William has spent a night sleeping rough in an event organised by a charity for the homeless. William slept in a sleeping bag near Blackfriars Bridge in central London last week, as part of his role as a patron of the Centrepoint organisation. He said he could not “even begin to imagine what it [...]
