- Public Schooling saves family with three children one million dollars. Thursday, October 28th, 2010
I’ve just done some quick sums and I’m up $676,600, minimum. No private school fees, no private health insurance and no wedding. Three kids at a private school for six years ($540,000 — that’s just the basic fees, excluding building funds, uniforms, balaclavas, etc). One wedding ($40,000 is the average price). And basic private family ...
Read more - Two and a Half men will kill your brain Wednesday, October 27th, 2010
The first thing you notice about Two and a Half Men is the laugh track. Hard, fast and involuntarily. That laugh you have when a primitive button deep inside is pressed that reveals something we try to hide to everyone, including ourselves. The laugh track encourages people to join in, not to feel alone. The second thing ...
Read more - Mary MacKillop. Thursday, October 21st, 2010
Now everyone’s had their say about the canonisation of Mary MacKillop it’s time for the final word from me. And Zoo magazine. Go with me people.
When I heard Mary MacKillop was becoming a saint, my first thought, like any Melbournian was, “I didn’t even know she was in the draft.”
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Read more - Private school thugs. Nothing new. Wednesday, October 20th, 2010
Did you read about the boy who may lose hearing in one ear because a Melbourne Grammar boy threw an egg at him during a muck-up prank gone wrong? Did anyone else feel sickened but at the same time not at all surprised when the principal of Melbourne Grammar said in an interview: “[The injured ...
Read more - Showing the kids a good time Tuesday, September 21st, 2010
I took the whingeing, nagging little maggots to the show for the first time yesterday, because, quite frankly, kids these days aren’t spoilt enough. They don’t get enough sweets or junk food, never go anywhere except church and Nana’s, and certainly don’t have enough plastic crap that’s going to be trodden underfoot, eaten by the ...
Read more - Melbourne Writers’ Festival 2010 Monday, September 6th, 2010
Love MWF!
Thursday I spoke at Wheeler’s Centre with The Drum’s Jonathan Green, Crikey’s Tom Cowie and First Dog On The Moon about getting and losing jobs online….
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Friday I hosted a huge bash at BMW Edge Bryce Courtnay, Alice Pung, Ben Pobjie, Steve Kilby and China Mieville.
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And Saturday morning was my ...
Read more - Culture jamming with my one year old 2004 election Saturday, August 21st, 2010
Read more - Homeless women. Wish in a car Friday, August 6th, 2010
The bad news? I slept in my car on Wednesday night. The good news is because I’d planned to, I’d had the car cleaned for the first time since 1996. When I picked the kids up from school they thought I’d bought a new car.
I slept in my car alongside dozens of others, by choice, ...
Read more - Shoot First with Chris Beck Wednesday, August 4th, 2010
So, writer, photojournalist and beautiful man Chris Beck made this TV pilot using me as a guinea pig late 2007 with Renegade (the producers of Rockwiz). “It’s in part arts show, talk show, celebrity interview and creation of a powerful new portrait.” Chris’s words. Not mine. So anyway this was shot late 2007 at my ...
Read more - Sex Party versus Family First on The Drum Tuesday, August 3rd, 2010
Morning television is the intellectual equivalent of having Burger Rings, smokes and an asbestos bong for breakfast (a big hello Shane Warne if you’re reading).
My firm belief as a professional in the area of “What I reckon based on no evidence or qualifications whatsoever” is that AM TV turns brains into lumps of ash coloured ...
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I took the whingeing, nagging little maggots to the show for the first time yesterday, because, quite frankly, kids these days aren’t spoilt enough. They don’t get enough sweets or junk food, never go anywhere except church and Nana’s, and certainly don’t have enough plastic crap that’s going to be trodden underfoot, eaten by the ...