Welfare not for drugs, booze, videos, KFC and gambling

Families Minister Mal Brough today mooted the extension of arrangements which would limit the capacity of some welfare recipients to waste their money on alcohol and drugs, often while neglecting their children at the same time.  In some cases, rent wasn’t being paid, electricity was cut off and children weren’t attending school regularly.  The government’s […]

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Wow - Sherbet are making a comeback

…for the Logie awards.  What song/s will they play?  “Howzat”, “Summer Love”, “Slipstream”?

Will they still know their old songs?  Do they still have the hair?  Will they fit into their 70’s clothes?
Will Sherbet being on the Logies make me watch this normally terrible awards show?  No!!!

Technorati Tags: Sherbet, 70’s music, Logies

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Busted?

I’ve noticed this ad being served by Adsense the last few days. I’m worried, are Google onto my surfing habits and suggesting I need some legal help?

Technorati Tags: Adsense, Google, drug crimes, child pornography, internet sexcrimes, lawyer

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Gone …. and forgotten already

I could hardly believe it when I heard on the news this morning about the complete screwup of the return of Pte Jake Kovco’s body from Iraq (where he was killed last week) to Australia. I mean, just how incompetent can the Australian Defence Force/Department of Defence be? Not to mention careless and […]

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Do the crimes, do the times

Tegan Wagner, who spoke out recently after the appeal by the men who raped her was rejected, has raised a valid point again, concerning their sentences. This comes as the DPP has initiated appeals against the leniency of their sentences.
She said the sentences were unfair and did not acknowledge individual victims.
“It’s like when you […]

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Eight Below

My son and I went to the movies this afternoon and saw “Eight Below”.  Given that I only went for this as a compromise on “Scary Movie 4″ which he wanted to see, and that we were only going out of lack of anything better to do and the fact that it is “tightwad Tuesday” […]

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Anzac Day

Anzac Day in Canberra usually marks the beginning of the cold part of autumn and then winter. Today its absolutely beautiful so we took advantage and went for a walk in a park near us. I love the autumn leaf displays we get here, its my favourite time of the year.
Hopefully the warm […]

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Milestone - 10k visits

At 7.09 am this morning, #10, 000 was someone from Queensland.  (what were you doing surfing blogs at 7 o’clock in the morning on a public holiday?)
So, its taken from 19/9/05 to 25/4/06 to get to 10k.  How long for the next 10k?  I’m currently getting approx 100 visits a day, so should take about […]

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Bankrupt failures living lives of luxury

Something that really shits me is seeing executives of failed companies and owners of businesses that collapse owing creditors hundreds of thousands or millions, even hundreds of millions, but still maintaining substantial personal assets and continuing to enjoy lifestyles way beyond what the vast majority of us consider normal.
Some examples:

Alan Bond went bankrupt in 1992 […]

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Banal Sewage

Thats what the Australian Family Association calls Big Brother, about to start for another year on Sunday.  To be precise, they call it:

“Banal sewage pumped into our living room,”

Given the strife BB got into in 2005, it seems we’re in for a slightly toned down version this year.  Still nudity and sex talk, but less […]

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