It’s always great to see a successful Native title claim. Native Title can mean a wide range of advantages for the claimants and often means a better ability to positively exploit both western and indigenous cultures. Of course this is very far from a guarantee.
It’s also important to remember that there has yet [...]

oh, fuck it

(cross posted at The Australian Centre for Democracy and Justice’s Blog)
I’ve come across Geoism a few times before in a few different conversations with people involved in the Geoist movement. It’s an idea that really interests me but that I disagree with.
Geoism is an idea put forward by Henry George. He argued that [...]

oh, fuck it

Regular readers of this blog will know that I’m a little excited about the Moto GP coming to Philip Island in October. Every year it’s a weekend of drunken hilarity.
You camp track-side, drink until you pass out (generally sometime in the afternoon), wake up a few hours later, start drinking again, pass out again, [...]

I seem to be posting a lot of crap of late - really must stop. But if you found this in the Urban Dictionary you’d do the same I’m sure.
Urban Dictionary: hammy: “A person or thing is defined as a ‘Hammy’ when they possess a large genitalia.
‘I slept with this guy last night and [...]

Guardian Bad Sex award winner:
Hoyt began moving his lips as if he were trying to suck the ice cream off the top of a cone without using his teeth. She tried to make her lips move in sync with his. The next thing she knew, Hoyt had put his hand sort of under her thigh [...]

Few people give me as much joy as this man - the NAU NOW man apparently.
Sure to be one of Australia’s leading artists these day - but I saw him first! Hands off!

From Wikipedia:
Godwin’s law (also Godwin’s rule of Nazi analogies) is an adage in Internet culture that was originated by Mike Godwin in 1990. The law states that:
As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches 1 (i.e. certainty).
There is a tradition in many Usenet newsgroups that once such [...]

This post by Kim over at Larvatus Prodeo got me thinking about something I’ve blogged on before.
Is it conceivable that this lack of coupling is the next stage of the process of individualisation? Margaret Thatcher once famously said “There’s no such thing as society.” What’s often left off from that quote is “only [...]