May 13 2008
Domestic violence within the Australian community is a fairly well-documented instantiation of a much wider global phenomenon. The varieties of domestic violence include the following categories and concepts: physical abuse, sexual abuse, emotional...
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May 10 2008
One of the fascinating things about postmodernism and postmodern architecture is that the ways in which it self-consciously disassembles and reassembles itself are really nothing more than the ways in which culture (and society) conduct exactly the...
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May 10 2008
Aboriginal Rock Art in Kakadu National Park, Northern Territory.   To even the uninitiated eye, the traditionally strong use of ochres, reds, blacks and yellows in Aboriginal artwork strongly identifies such artwork as being of the Australian...
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May 4 2008
Do your bit for Reconciliation in Australia - download the hit single “From Little Things Big Things Grow” from here at this link. (You can also watch the video, too !) You can buy the song for AU$1.69 through paypal or credit card. ...
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Apr 24 2008
Every night across Australia 22,000 teenagers are homeless. I recently wrote an article about Homelessness in Australia. A part of the inspiration for that article was not just the fact that I am involved with the community sector but that I saw a...
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Apr 24 2008
“A small Central Queensland hospital has been forced to close because of an infestation of potentially deadly redback spiders.” _-_-_-_-_ Redback spiders are venomous with a potentially fatal venom.
Apr 23 2008
“The Bonfire of the Vanities” is of course the book by Tom Wolfe. I am only really familiar with the film adaptation but it is a fine story. Of things Tom Wolfe, the upcoming (2009) film “The Electric Kool Aid Acid Test” is...
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Apr 23 2008
“20 March 2008: For the first time ever, children in Capaculan village in Masbate, the Philippines are celebrating World Water Day on 22 March with clean, safe water thanks to bio-sand filters introduced by Plan.” _-_-_-_-_ One of the...
Apr 22 2008
Yet again finding myself mindlessly wandering through the complex labyrinths and tangled hierarchies of meanings, references and so much pointless banter and empty signification of the internet and I stumbled across another fantastic humanitarian...
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Apr 22 2008
Advertising is usually that to which we associate pretty well every single one of the seven deadly sins. It has certainly at least taken greed and enshrined it as a virtue, along with the other sins. I was pleasantly surprised when I came across the...
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