SubscribeOver 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 [...]
The View from Down Here
The musings of an Aussie seeing the world from waist high.... from a wheelchair
Tag: current affairs
A fresh face perhaps
Service models – an early night.
PB and I are just back from grabbing a single nightcap after dinner at the pub next door. I would have had another and perhaps even had a nibble to eat. However, as soon as we rolled in they started to shut down.
For the sake of clarity, let me give you a quick run done [...]
taught by kurt
Last night watched Kurt Fernley on Enough Rope with Andrew Denton. Kurt is apparently a qualified teacher, a guy a little younger than me who grew up an hour and a half or so from where I did and had three older brothers. He has had two lucky escapes from car-related accidents and eventually wants [...]
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 [...]
