SubscribeUpdated today with the letter that I actually sent this am
An open letter to the
Minister for Transport
the Honourable Mr David Campbell MP
GPO Box 5341
SYDNEY NSW 2001
Dear Sir,
I’m told I tell a great story whether fiction or fact. My education and experiences over many years has reinforced that telling stories is a good way to understand [...]
The View from Down Here
The musings of an Aussie seeing the world from waist high.... from a wheelchair
Category: politics
An open letter — rant, long — updated
Say it in seconds
Brevity may be the order of the day for our PM, but ultimately what they say is more important.
A blocked view
This is the first time I’ve heard of disability used as a reason to retain a million dollar view.
The disability community and developers have an uneasy relationship at the best of times usually around useability and function rather than location per se. It is interseting that according to this piece:
At the request of the developer, [...]
Bali bombers gone.
After 6 years the three master minds of the bombings that killed 88 Australians have now been executed by firing squad.
I lived in WA at the time and many of the killed and injured were from the West. I remember clearly the shock waves in Perth as many of our own who were holiday-makers who [...]
A fresh face perhaps
Over the last few days NSW politics has had something more of a adjustment. After the Premier quit a week ago, we now have a former garbage man as NSW’s top man.
There’s been hurt egos, spilt blood and no doubt split factions within the ALP in NSW at least as well as over in Western Australia.
Nathan Rees [...]
Australia 2020
Ok, so I am a bit late commenting on this I know but last weekend the Rudd government hosted the Australia 2020 summit. An exercise in listening to a handpicked collection of 1000 Australians for new ideas or re-hashed old ideas. In the words of Russell Skelton:
For one weekend a national conversation took place about [...]
Earth Hour 2008
This was written initially on paper at the time it is stamped with.
I write this by candlelight. In and of itself that may not be odd for me. But at least some of the rest of Sydney will be doing whatever it is they do by similar light or by none at all. For it [...]
