Geoffrey Robertson, I love you

by | May 24, 2006 | Uncategorized

Only Geof­frey Robertson could actu­ally ask Amanda Van­stone on national tele­vi­sion to recite the second verse of the national anthem and catch her out on “for those who’ve come across the sea/we’ve bound­less plains to share” and then actu­ally say to her, “It...

Indigenous pain

by | May 16, 2006 | Uncategorized

I’m pretty shocked by what I’m hear­ing on Lateline right now. The reports this morn­ing about sexual abuse in remote com­munit­ies up north were pretty bad. Com­bine that with this attack on a woman – pour­ing petrol on her and set­ting her alight – and the...

Morales, Mora, old politics in the new world

by | May 5, 2006 | Uncategorized

Let’s see if we can get the same enthu­si­asm for post­ing about Bolivian gas fields as we did about leg hair… *smirk* I meant to write about this a few days ago, but I’ve been busy. I’ve watched recent South Amer­ican polit­ics with great interest. I’m...

Mr President? Have I got a drug for you!

by | Apr 17, 2006 | Uncategorized

Remem­ber the “ter­rible side effects” of the “drug-trial gone wrong” recently? We’ve finally got some details:Mr Wilson and the five others were each paid £2200 ($A5275) for taking part in the trial, but suffered con­vul­sions and organ fail­ure minutes after being...