Thrilled with the responses, I’m going to take one of jen_tlemnfarmer’s sug­ges­tions and move plan­ning for this to a com­munity. For all those who said they were happy to help, please go join love_diversity (corny name, but it was on the spur of the moment!) and let’s…

Out­side, the wind is howl­ing. It is mid-Decem­ber: the days are blood-hot and steamy, even when the skies are over­cast like today was. The sun sets now into omin­ous grey-purple clouds as trees whip in obeis­ance to the ele­ments. Today, our hearts are break­ing. Children…

For those of you who don’t already know, thou­sands of young Anglo-Celtic kids in Cronulla, in Sydney’s south­ern beaches, spent their Sunday get­ting pissed, wrap­ping them­selves in the old Aussie flag and beat­ing up Lebanese people for kicks. It’s not Sydney’s first…

One of my best stu­dents from last semester, David Winter, has been awar­ded the coveted Monthly copy edit­or’s job. Yes, the one that every­one applied for. I’m so thrilled for him. He was in both my Magazine Edit­ing and Advanced Edit­ing for Digital Media classes and I…

Hmmm. I think the inter­view I did with JJJ just got bumped in favour of the live cross to Can­berra where Family First has just helped the Gov­ern­ment pass the VSU laws. Great. And that’s the last Hack pro­gram for the year, so I’m not sure it will run at all now. Sad.…

Mmm… so pretty! A magical fairy tale, almost exactly what I would have expec­ted a Dave McKean world come to life to look like. Some lovely moments, dream­spaces and creepy creatures. Some great lines – well, what do you expect, with Mr Gaiman pen­ning the tale? I…

There’s noth­ing more than a hold­ing page there right now, but ariel flux is a reality.

Terror laws passed through upper house without amend­ment. Par­lia­ment was given a mere three hours to dis­cuss more than 100 amend­ments. Because that’s enlightened debate. Has anyone else watch­ing our gubernat­orial pro­cesses been ter­ri­fied recently? The yelling. The…

The CIA arrests and tor­tures a random German cit­izen by mis­take, real­ises its mis­take and then aban­dons the guy on a coun­try road in Albania asking the German gov­ern­ment to cover its butt. Mean­while, another ‘mis­taken’ arrest appar­ently involved a pro­fessor dobbed in…