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Who’s Papa’s little Nietzschean?

by | Apr 21, 2009 |

I was a pre­co­cious brat. I’m sure that does­n’t need stat­ing for most of you, but just in case some of you haven’t met me in person and there­fore could­n’t deduce it, I thought I’d make it clear. Today Mum told me that, aged four, Jehovah’s wit­nesses came to the door…

Human rights consultation

by | Apr 15, 2009 |

Went to the Human Rights Charter con­sulta­tion in Danden­ong today. Was very inter­est­ing – lots of dis­cus­sion at my table on polit­ical rights vs social and cul­tural rights, the frame­work for rights in Aus­tralia (con­sti­tu­tional vs legis­lat­ive), dis­cus­sion of the need…

Toys

by | Apr 15, 2009 |

It’s not often I ‘advert­ise’ for someone but two sep­ar­ate people have given Harper toys I’m com­pletely thrilled about (Lizzie the aqua lizard, gifted by Jo Sumner and Ellie the Ele­phant gifted by  ) and they both turn out, com­pletely coin­cid­ent­ally, to be from…

Passover

by | Apr 10, 2009 |

It’s Pesach – Pas­sover – the one Jewish fest­ival I’ve been pretty good about observing ever since I had a rev­el­a­tion play­ing a role­play­ing game by Craig Walker (), iron­ic­ally called Rev­el­a­tions 68:11 (or some­thing, I may have the chapter and verse wrong) at a…

Stuff for nerdy babies!!!!

by | Apr 8, 2009 |

You know how I keep saying we pretty much have everything we need now? I lied. Par­tic­u­larly the ABC flash­cards and the baby book. A place to record our infant’s exper­i­ments with grav­ity! So cute!

False accusations…

by | Apr 6, 2009 |

  linked to this précis of a report into the false accus­a­tions of rape. It reminds me I’ve been mean­ing to write a post on the false rape accus­a­tion that is cent­ral to To Kill a Mock­ing­bird. We watched the film of it recently (having named our daugh­ter after the…

Brilliant Guardian April Fools

by | Apr 1, 2009 |

Guard­ian switches to Twit­ter and con­verts entire back cata­log too, res­ult­ing in genius tweets such as:JFK assassin8d @ Dallas, def. heard second gun­shot from grassy knoll WTF­Full article

Phoenix Emberstone

Phoenix Emberstone

pas­sion­ate polit­ical poet

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I am also known as Ro Ber­sten, a com­mu­nic­a­tions spe­cial­ist with more than 20 years’ exper­i­ence. See my CV and pro­fes­sional projects.