by phoenix | Nov 9, 2003 | Uncategorized
I am so disappointed and angry at Amanda Vanstone’s response to this ship being ‘escorted’ back to Indonesia. She says it demonstrates that excising the islands from our migration zone was the right thing to do. Excuse me? How, exactly? I didn’t expect...
by phoenix | Nov 9, 2003 | Uncategorized
Melbourne Museum has improved remarkably since I was last there. The Stories from a City exhibition was fascinating. I was intrigued, inspired, rapt. This is fairly rare in my encounters with Australian museums. Some of the presentation...
by phoenix | Nov 8, 2003 | Uncategorized
Ha! In shameless acknowledgment of the irony here, let me point you at this rant in which predat0r shreds LJ while using it. He also blames me for introducing him to it. Guilty as charged: he explicitly notes that I want kudos for knowing him. Yup. It’s...
by phoenix | Nov 7, 2003 | Uncategorized
Friday night, impoverished in Melbourne… Anyone want to come to The Croft Institute with me tonight? Dub & reggae and it’s only $5 if you’re there before midnight. Plus funky science...
by phoenix | Nov 4, 2003 | Uncategorized
Watching a doco on SBS about trafficking in humans. Slave workers, sex slaves, trafficked across borders from Mexico to the US, into Japan to service Yakuza, around the Balkans by the Albanian gangs working with the Russian mafia. It’s...
