I thought it was about time that I added an “about me and this blog” section to the wonderment that is Goonanism.

Me, I’m a professional lefty in my early thirties that lives in Melbourne and has done so all my life. In 2005 I founded the Australian Centre for Democracy and Justice to provide me with an outlet for my activist urges. I am currently employed by the Health and Community Services Union.

This blog was first started in March 2004, initially hosted by Blogger, and was intended to provide me with a forum to explore the issues and ideas that came up whilst I wrote a minor thesis for my Masters of Public Advocacy and Action. The topic at the time way “Why the Environment Movement must Lead the Revolution” – and ended up some way away from this topic.

It served this purpose to some extent but it really just became a place for me to vent on a wide range of political issues.

With the launch of the Australian Centre for Democracy and Justice, came it’s blog, Darkness at Noon. In many senses this started the 2nd phase of this blog as I started doing my more political blogging over there and this became more of a personal blog.

At the end of 2005 I switched to my own hosting from Blogger.

Comments Policy

I don’t really have a comments policy and want to keep it that way. Please feel free to say what you want. Whilst this blog is less political these days I always encourage plenty of comments – obviously they’re good for my ego debate/democracy and warm fuzzy feelings etc.

However I do reserve the right to remove any comment I feel like. I may or may not explain my actions to you, I may also bar you from commenting.

So if there are to be rules, then there only needs to be one rule: I decide. As a rough guide thought, the idea is “play the ball, not the man”.