Back in my university days, I remember one particular week I had bills to pay and not enough money in my account. I wasn’t completely bankrupt, but I do remember knowing I’d be cutting it close if I tried to pay everything off at once. Still, when you have bills to pay you have bills [...]

The term ‘Stolen Generation‘ refers to the period roughly between 1869 to sometime in the 1970′s where Aboriginal children were forcibly removed from their families by the Australian government. There didn’t need to be any reason for doing so and the government was under no obligation to establish a case that the removed children were [...]

I’ve always been under the impression that public opinion in some way guided what our politicians got up to. Obviously I’m not naive enough to believe the system is infallible or 100% efficient, but in general if the public aren’t happy with something at the very least a committee or commission is usually set up [...]

When I think of comparisons between Australia and Europe, I see Australia as lagging behind Europe by about five to ten years. Lagging behind not because of societal or cultural slowness, but because of one key difference: The mining and resources industry. Without the mining and resources industries, Australia is essentially a country with little [...]

Your sixteen, maybe a virgin maybe not. Not able to drive you’ve got to catch public transport everywhere and then a thirty five year old man approaches you. First he starts with the questions. ‘what’s your name?’ ‘where are you going?’ ‘you by yourself?’ ‘do you have a boyfriend?’ …and then he reaches over and [...]

I’ve done my fair share of stupid things at nightclubs. Things I’m ashamed of, things I don’t understand what I was thinking the next day, things I didn’t think I was capable of. Yeah I’ve got my regrets, but probably nothing as regretful as one Bendigo mother of two. Being a woman in a nightclub [...]

This story kind of skipped under the radar of the merriness of Christmas. Whether intentional or not I have no idea but the results are quite damning. The problems of entitlement, longstanding welfare agreements, bungling administration costs of anything Aboriginal related and the all to eager government policy to continue wasting money on failed Aboriginal [...]

I’m not quite sure exactly what it is, but given the right circumstances and person, there’s always been something alluring about having sex at work. Perhaps it’s a combination of things. The risk of getting caught, knowing you’re doing it somewhere where you shouldn’t be, doing something you enjoy while you should be working, having [...]

Late last week a people smuggling boat carrying a cargo of 100 or so people smuggling customers crashed into the shoreline of Christmas Island. Currently the death toll stands at thirty but could be up to fifty eight are estimated to have died. The numbers seem to change on a day to day basis. As [...]

“I absolutely condemn the placement of this information on the Wikileaks website. It’s a grossly irresponsible thing to do and an illegal thing to do The foundation stone of it is an illegal act.” -Julia Gillard, Prime Minister of Australia on Wikileaks When Julia Gillard told reporters the above, the natural followup question was ‘what [...]