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Category Archives: Social Commentary
Welcome to Australia. Where everyone hates each other.
One of the first differences I observed upon moving from the east coast of Australia to the west coast was this: all over food packaging, advertising and various media the ultimate selling point over here is ‘Made in Western Australia’, … Continue reading
Posted in Melbourne, Misc, Social Commentary
Tagged Australia, NSW, Queensland, Rivalry, Social Commentary, Victoria, Western Australia
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Melbourne Bucket-List Item 3.
Consume Delicious Coffee I thought I had missed item 3! But then I remembered that on Friday the fam, some friends and I stopped at Snow Pony on the way to the airport. Possibly the trendiest cafe in all of … Continue reading
Posted in Food, Melbourne, Social Commentary
Tagged Balwyn, Cafe, Coffee, Eastern Suburbs, Food, Kalgoorlie, Melbourne, Snow Pony, Social Commentary
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The Melbourne Bucket-List
In less than a week I depart Melbourne- my hometown and partial love of my life, for dustier pastures in Western Australia. As excited as I am to begin the next chapter I think a lengthy and drawn-out fair well … Continue reading
Posted in Melbourne, Misc, Social Commentary
Tagged AFL, Arts, Bands, Cafe, Coffee, Cosmopolitan, European, Fashion, MCG, Melbourne, Music, Photography, Social Commentary, Weekend Escape
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Candy-Coloured Communism
I’m no political or historical scientist but perhaps the Warsaw Pact Invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968 would have been more favourably met by those frolicking in the Prague Spring if propaganda used by the Soviets had been disseminated in fetching … Continue reading
Posted in Misc, Social Commentary, Travel
Tagged Candy Colours, Communism, Czech Republic, Czechoslovakia, Photography, Prague, Soviet Propaganda, Travel
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Change
Do we ever get used to change? I’ve had 23 years of it and yet as I stare down the barrel of one of my biggest changes to date I can’t seem to shake that niggly, anxious feeling. Like i’d … Continue reading
5 of the Most Awkward Moments
1. Inappropriate child/parent television. This happens to me a lot. I set myself up on the couch to watch one or so of the 15 episodes of S*x and the City I have saved on IQ, and without fail, just as … Continue reading
Haunted
Do you believe in ghosts? The Kalgoorlie Miner building is seriously haunted. Sure these photos are aided by the black and white function in iPhoto, but nevertheless the abandoned section at the back of the second level looks like the … Continue reading
Posted in Misc, Social Commentary
Tagged Ghosts, Haunted, Kalgoorlie, Newspapers, Old Buildings, Photography
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Cash for Comment
The cash for comment scandal is to first year journalism students what Donoghue vs Stevensen is to first year law students. While Donohue vs Stevensen is studied to demonstrate how the modern concept of negligence came about (and why you … Continue reading
Posted in Misc, Social Commentary
Tagged Cash for Comment, Dry July, Ethics, Journalism
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My Bloggable Day 
‘On this day last year’ with thanks to facebook
In a bid to make facebook even more like George Orwell’s 1984, Mark Zuckerberg and his cronies have now enabled a feature to remind us of what we were doing (and that they were and always will be watching) on … Continue reading →