- Dog whistling. From the vault… Tuesday, July 27th, 2010
November 11, 2007.
Mention Australian inventions like the rotary clothes line, the wine cask or the bionic ear and people start puffing out their chests, frothing at the mouth and feeling that little bit taller. Me? I couldn’t give a flying rats. People who are proud of Australia’s achievements really need to get a ...
Read more - Dyslexia as an election issue Wednesday, July 21st, 2010
As a member of the Federal Government’s working body on dyslexia and an ambassador for the 2010 International Day of People with Disability (who happens to be dyslexic and the mother of two dyslexic sons) I’m thrilled Abbott has laid off the asylum seekers long enough for dyslexia, a condition that affects 10% of Australians ...
Read more - You Know You’re Catholic If… Tuesday, July 13th, 2010
You’re an atheist but too scared to tell your parents. Or yourself.
Most your mates are Catholic.
As soon as you’re in a small room you have an overwhelming urge to say “Bless me Father for I have sinned.” And then make up lies about things you didn’t do.
You think nothing of being an adult calling another ...
Read more - Bettina Arndt. Dear Uptight White Honkie Wednesday, June 30th, 2010
Where do I start? Bettina Arndt wrote an article yesterday and, well, how can I put this? The woman had done the unthinkable. Made Cardinal George Pell and Sheik Al Hilay’s views on women seem modern. Scary enough if you think of Arndt, as many do, as a feminist. I’m not sure she is. She ...
Read more - Julia Gillard PM. It’s a Girl! Friday, June 25th, 2010
Let us have this moment. Please. It’s history and we’ll never have it again. Sure, when we realised a female PM was no longer a matter of ‘if’ but ‘when’ this is not quite what we were expecting. But don’t spoil it.
So many of us worked so hard and dreamed of this for so long. ...
Read more - Leave Kevin Rudd ALONE Thursday, June 10th, 2010
LEAVE KEVIN RUDD ALONE. Okay? Can everyone just lay off him? It’s like watching a 13-year-old victim of an arranged marriage to a 77-year-old sex offender be stoned to death for escaping.
I want to wrap the poor guy up in my loving arms, hold him close to my heaving bosom and sing him some John ...
Read more - Twitter. Why I Did What I Did Tuesday, May 11th, 2010
Good Morning Angels,
Here is my official statement!
Don’t fight this for me, fight this for the principal. If we don’t imagine the voices we’ll never hear, the columns we’ll never read and the ideas we’ll never be challenged by. How Sam Newman, Kyle Sandilands, Chris Smith, David Oldfield, The Chaser Boys etc get suspended for ...
Read more - Twitter. So not about it. Thank-you Tuesday, May 4th, 2010
Hello darlings,
What a day! I’ve been sacked from The Age.
I’ve adored every moment of my time with The Age. The Age is the heart and soul of my city and Melbourne is the love of my life.
Read more - Euthanasia. Death with a happy ending Wednesday, April 21st, 2010
One of my favourite people is an old boyfriend’s mum, Marijke, a stuttering Dutch psychologist, heart of gold, body of a Veronica and a penchant for buying old furniture, painting it beige and re-upholstering it in calico.
Meeting her in my teens was a revelation. The women I knew mostly fell into the category of teacher, ...
Read more - MTR 1377. Knob Radio Wednesday, April 14th, 2010
I THOUGHT it was a joke. A talk radio station with Steve Price (a man, according to Wikipedia, widely known as the Poisoned Dwarf), Jason Akermanis (footballer, half man, half punchline), Andrew Bolt (right-wing tabloid hack), Sam Newman (Melbourne’s favourite misogynist and bully), Chris Smith (serial creep and ugy drung from @GB) and Steve Vizard ...
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