Politics and the single woman

kowari asked about the sexist chal­lenges to Gil­lard’s lead­er­ship (which I think were more of a media beat-up than a ser­i­ous con­sid­er­a­tion for her with­drawal but I could be wrong). Non­ethe­less, the chal­lenges on the basis of her...

Still waiting

Damn. I really wanted Julia Gil­lard to win the Labor lead­er­ship. But she’s pulled out in the interests of ‘party unity’. I think she should have at least stood. But per­haps if she stood and lost, Beazley could­n’t have nom­in­ated her as Deputy and maybe...

Consequences

The only prob­lem with eating that much meat in one sit­ting when you’re 90% veget­arian is the diges­tion. Owwww, cramping.

The story of my fantabulous birthday and more

Pos­sibly the best birth­day in a long time. At mid­night as my birth­day star­ted, I was up at the Kelvin having a glass of red wine after having treated myself to a movie. I bumped into Ben, an old mate from The Age who now works for ABC TV....