You’ve been in deten­tion for seven years. Now you’ve been moved into psy­chi­at­ric care. And Amanda Van­stone has finally offered you a visa. Why? She’s char­ac­ter­ising your psy­chi­at­ric dis­tress as a ‘change in coöperation’. Nice. So, that’s Aus­trali­a’s offi­cial policy?…

Hello mus­iclovers. There are approx­im­ately 250 adult camp­ing tick­ets left for the Wood­ford folk fest­ival. They cost $315 each for the entire week includ­ing camp­ing. Unless you are abso­lutely pos­it­ive that you have been accep­ted as a per­former, I strongly sug­gest you…

I hate wear­ing glasses. I hate my dread­ful eye­sight, my myopia. I hate that every time I go to get new glasses, I am thrown back in time (four-eyes! / fourth grade, cricket ball arcs towards my head, smashes against my face, splin­ters of glass / head­aches because the…

Well, almost two years to the day since I left on my European adven­ture, I have finally fin­ished upload­ing the web pages for it. Sheesh! Anyway, my adven­tures in Ukraine are now avail­able for your delect­a­tion. Oh, and I guess that also means you can start at the…

Well done, Petro Geor­giou! Aus­tralia softens man­dat­ory deten­tion laws. Now, to cel­eb­rate, and to call for Amanda Van­stone’s resig­na­tion, who’s join­ing me at midday on Sunday out­side the Mel­bourne Museum for the Justice for Refugees rally?

Mir­rorMask trailer. *swoon*

Went with marius_cale to see Jane Birkin sing songs writ­ten for her by Serge Gains­bourg. She was accom­pan­ied by three algerian musi­cians andher divine voice soared and swept along­side the lilt­ing rhythms of the drum and the heart­break­ing duende of a violin weep­ing for…

It’s done!! Unique Trav­el­ler is signed off… I see proofs Friday, will prob­ably have print copies by June 29 and it’s on sale July 4.

“One lawyer said that his client… has told him that he was beaten reg­u­larly in his early days at Guantá­namo, hanged by his wrists for hours at a time and that an inter­rog­ator pressed a burn­ing cigar­ette into his arm.” The age of this “client” when he was detained?…