Since I was a young girl I believed I lived in a world where my gender made no difference whatsoever. I was raised to see myself as a person whose worth was measured by my deeds, my achievements and my failures. As I grew older I continued to see the world through this lens. As …
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Thank you to Tashi Witekauha for sharing Sanctuary Asia’s Clip with us – this world is a gift, a precious gift not an unlimited convenience store that can be restocked when it’s shelves are emptied. We live because of it and to destroy its’ resources for greed and profit is to destroy ourselves. This world and all on it is …
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Originally posted on helen meikle's scribblefest:
However much designer rhetoric you may use to package it, elitism by any other name still smells like stinkweed to most Australians, and the smell after last week’s budget was overpowering. Perhaps this attitude is a legacy of our early DNA: the indigenous people that nobody respected or…
How do I begin this post? I typed introduction after introduction and each left me feeling at a loss. It wasn’t until I took a step back that I realized that the issue wasn’t that I didn’t know what I wanted to say it was that I didn’t know how to say it without resorting …
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Well it appears that yet again we have sunk to all new depths and that my friends is not entirely sarcastic. It appears that in a recent survey of the ocean floor bottles, plastic bags, fishing gear, and various crap have been found as deep 4.5 kilometers below the surface, and in areas …
Well now this is a lovely piece of snark from Smile – Be Happy, aimed at our illustrious Prime Minister and his minions. All of whom have just decided to gut funding into research, revoke funding for the environmental research and planning, increased the cost of medicare along with raising the age of the retirement …
What I’m wondering this Wednesday is precisely how does our state and federal government have the unmitigated gall to call for a boycott of an ‘ice-cream‘ company by saying they are bad for the Reef related Tourism. This company, Ben & Jerry, are protesting the proposed dumping and dredging on the reef and offering free …
While the description is a little generalized the intent behind it is utterly correct. We’ve become a society so concentrated on micro-managing that we lose sight of the bigger problems. Or it may simply be that most feel overwhelmed or unwilling to deal with the larger issues and thus concentrate their efforts where they …
In the light of some of my recent posts and the increasing ire I have with those in government I have decided once again not to go with the softly uplifting Thought of the Day but more of a – we’ve got to stop letting them get away with choosing greed over long-term …
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Originally posted on The Australian Independent Media Network:
The Guardian has judged him as ‘’politically incorrect to the point of dementia’’ New Statesman said Abbott represents ‘’politics at its most crass, exploitative and disturbing’’ UK Labour MP Paul Flynn called him ‘’a bigoted airhead’’ The LA Times called itself ‘’scandalised by his prejudices’’ The Sydney…
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