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- Armagny
- Policy lawyer, international relations postgrad, lefty contrarian, muso, married, proud father, have cats, lefty, enjoy fine liquor... These Armagnac dispatches cover parenting and fatherhood, politics, law, ethics, international relations, life and love, cats and a piece of my soul for good measure.
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MH370 and the coolabah tree - To be Australian is to travel: our compulsion to travel and our purported generosity to travellers from across the world represent fundamental building blo...22 hours ago
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Head hurts - Everything hurts especially when I cough which I've been doing since last week. Sinus dripping like a tap, joint pain, headache and this is only a cold vir...1 day ago
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Constrained by God: an epistemic event horizon - Reading about inadvertent patterns created by Islam brings to mind how adaptability is an advantage in a civilisation. While it is true that religious beli...2 days ago
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Monday Message Board - It’s time for another Monday Message Board. Post comments on any topic. Civil discussion and no coarse language please. Side discussions and idees fixes to...2 days ago
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Solemn thoughts for a Sunday evening - I should brush my teeth but I want a biscuit. There are no biscuits around the house. But I keep not brushing my teeth just in case a biscuit should miracu...3 days ago
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On pouring out thoughts - Oh the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out...3 days ago
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A possible solution to the "refugee boat crisis" affecting Australia... - It seems that the divide is like this... one side says we cannot let them in and the other side says let them in. That is a huge oversimplification of cou...4 days ago
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Monday Melbourne: CCXCVI, March 2014 - Corpuscular; White Night lights. Taken February 20141 week ago
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Three - I didn’t mean to stop writing here it just sort of happened. And then every time I think about starting, I think – but how will I say everything? So I say ...1 week ago
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Experts - Indigenous affairs - whose the cool crew, whose not allowed to talk, who decides and why? - I know that a lot of readers who visit this blog are interested in the issues surrounding Aboriginality and human rights - so this clip of Noongar academic a...2 weeks ago
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Plus Ultra! - I know Brian said that we’d posted our last, but I couldn’t let the very kind words on the thread announcing our closure to go un-remarked. I also thought ...2 months ago
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To Brodie Donegan, on the NSW foetal personhood bill - Blogger on the Cast Iron Balcony has moved! Please update your bookmarks. ------------------------------ I heard a detailed account of the ups and downs in...3 months ago
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Booking our travel - Yes, yes, busy busy busy. I haven't abandoned you totally, although it must feel like it -- sorry. I've just had most of a week at the beach, so I'm feelin...7 months ago
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Feminism and the terrifying dependency of children - [Cross-posted at Larvatus Prodeo - where you'll find a great conversation on these issues in the comments.] For Australian women of my generation, many is...10 months ago
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Young women and the ‘F’ word - Alecia Simmonds is a feminist. Or at least she thinks she is one- and the proof is that she can get her rant on with holy buzzwords like ‘patriarchy.’ Sim...11 months ago
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Toast - The girls usually bite big chunks out of the middle of their morning toast rectangles, turning them into some kind of amorphous animals that squeak at each...1 year ago
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the horses - Like most of the rest of the world, I was entranced to see that the spawn of the Dear Leader had got hisself a squeeze. A singer and whatnot, you know, as l...1 year ago
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Tigers in Literature and Popular Culture - For in his morning orisons he loves the sun and the sun loves him. For he is of the tribe of Tiger. For the Cherub Cat is a term of the Angel Tiger. -- Chr...1 year ago
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I'm from the Commonwealth Bank and I'm here to help myself. - ONLINE auction site eBay has withdrawn the Snowtown Bank from sale less than 24 hours after real estate agent Nigel Christie listed it. In emails and ...2 years ago
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Nature, red in tooth and beak - We were forced to have a barbecue at Lake Tuggeranong Town Park. The park is green and pleasant, with a sandy lakeshore beach, skate park and playground e...2 years ago
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wrong basket - For several years Flo has had a penchant for the wrong basket. Like many dogs 'of a certain age' she muddles the scale. But in the meantime, the dogs in ...2 years ago
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I heart feminists on twitter – some Christmas dues - A lovely conversation on twitter has sparked me to dust off the old blog to talk about how twitter is a much more feminist friendly space than blogging eve...2 years ago
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3 comments:
What did people expect when the put that guy in charge? I mean he has no idea about the importance of Telstra to Australia, its not just ANOTHER telecommunication company, its THE telecommunication company!
I don't agree with the sale of Telstra at all, I don't know why people are so concerned with services in the bush when inner-city services are not up to standards yet!
I wish there were more service providers so as to improve competition. When I lived in Germany a few years ago phone calls were extremely cheap if you picked the right company, it was great. But the Postal Service over there is state-owned and everything costs a freaking fortune. Services to the bush absolutely need to be improved, I just wish I knew the best way to go about that.
And as for the share thing, it sounds like something straight out of an episode of Yes Minister.
Amen to Yes Minister. Our country makes $5bn from Stealthstra annually, we sell for $30bn, so in 2012 we are DOWN $5bn. scuse me?
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