I got an article published over at the New Matilda – always exciting.
You can read it here.

My whole office is wondering why I’m pissing myself. But I fear they won’t understand.
I’m laughing at Leeeeroooooy Jenkins!!!
Then, to make weak bowel matter worse, I read this.

You’ve probably noticed I haven’t been blogging much of late. Really not sure why. I go through phases I guess.
I’ve been struggling with the whole, having the Australian Centre for Democracy and Justice Blog and this on and really now knowing which one to post on and consequentially not blogging much at all. [...]

I was just thinking about my previous post and wondering what criticisms of my position would be. The truth of the matter is that what I said is really nothing remotely new however issues surrounding animal rights seem to get the biggest response on this blog as become apparent when I was blogging on [...]

Animal Testing has come on the agenda again following the introduction of a private members bill by Andrew Bartlett and a Senate inquiry.
The figures associated with this are alarming:
Latest available figures show 488,808 animals – 1339 a day, or more than 55 an hour – were used in experiments in Victoria in 2003. This is [...]

I just came across this and I must say it cracks me up.

I can’t let John Howard’s partial capitulation on Petro Georgiou’s reform of the detention of refugees go without comment.
First and foremost, we need to recognise it as a great victory. Georgiou’s private members bill was the tip of the ice-berg. The majority of the work has been done in the community through activism, [...]

I mentioned in an earlier post that I thought the Federal government’s heritage listing of the Alpine National Park would do nothing with regards to the granting of grazing licences by the state government.
Canberra is now trying to be ‘reasonable’ and wishes to reach a compromise agreement with the Victorian government to prevent the case [...]

Working with community groups and government grants I tend to keep a close eye on the movements of all state government departments.
The Northern Territory has always had an Office for Ethnic Affairs. Whilst it may seem like petty semantics, the use of the term ‘ethnic’ is rather dated – some may say by 30 [...]

Hello all. If you haven’t noticed that my blog has changed then you are probably vision impaired and I hope that this site is accessible to you.
I’ve gone for green because it’s, like, the colour of the environment and I like trees – they help me breath.
I’ve also rearranged my links with a few [...]