When I read the headline “Aussie navy stops Somali pirate attack’ this afternoon my heart swelled with pride. Finally our navy was more then just an asylum seeker taxi service. Curious as to how the firefight went down, what artillery they used and how many pirates they sunk I eagerly clicked on the headline. Within [...]
Riding on the coattails of the Emmy’s yesterday morning, last night Melbourne’s Crown Casino played host to the annual AFL Brownlow medal award night. I don’t know why but everytime there’s an award night the media try to make out like Australian ‘celebrities’ have some sort of glamorous fashion sense. As the Logies and all [...]
Every so often in Australia we get some minority group spokesperson stand up and declare the current injustice of the day as the worst thing to ever happen to anyone. For the most part the general public listen, nod, pretend to care and then go back to their daily lives. Indians complain about getting bashed [...]
As a rule of thumb it’s generally a good idea to thoroughly clean out a second hand fish tank. Despite what a previous owner might tell you about the history of an aquarium it’s impossible to know 100% that the tank is ‘clean’. A fish tank should have a regular cleaning schedule, be free of [...]
For us city slickers, it’s pretty hard to beat the feeling of remotelessness you get hurtling down a rail trail in the middle of the night being caught in a thunderstorm. Lighting flashes light up the sky, rain buckets down, the gravel trail fast turns into mush and you’re relying on an intermittently flickering dynamo [...]
One source close to the case claimed it could be “every bit as bad, if not worse, than the Josef Fritzl case. Especially the fact that she had so many children to her father”. When I read about Victorian Fritzl case this morning I couldn’t help but feel a little bit cheated. I’m not trying [...]
The cinema experience for me has always been strongly rooted in that of a date (no pun intended). Me, my date, a bunch of random people all sitting in the dark watching a movie and afterwards a verbal dissection of the plot over something to drink. Recently on holiday, I broke with tradition and couldn’t [...]
I’ve never been a fan of laptops. They’re fiddly, annoying and why bother with something inferior when you’ve got a nice beefy desktop capable of doing anything. Don’t get me wrong, I see the practical use for them but personally I’ve never had the need for one and have avoided getting one ‘just because’. Last [...]
When the question of doubt was first raised over runner Caster Semenya I, like every other male on the planet took one look at her and acknowledged that in bed she’d probably be spending most of her time on top. Despite appearing to shrug off the calls for gender tests and verification, Caster has recently [...]
Whilst the public run around bashing the Australian police at every opportunity they get, the media’s attention has recently seemed to focus on our military. If we’re not blaming them for being cautious in dealing with asylum shoppers who have just blown up their own boat, then we’re accusing them of having something to do [...]