Someone who I’m happy to call a friend, Helen Perris, who has been a long time actor and music instructor in Australia, has finally decided to stop sharing her amazing voice with few, and share with many.
Helen is touring Australia, and I’ve already booked tickets to her Melbourne gig.
Her details and booking stuff here: helenperrismusic.com
A highlight below. It’s only a touch on her ability, and if you’re in a touring city, I’d encourage you to go.
My hair looks shocking! 🙂
Thx to Creeky as always for having me on.
I’m not completely justifying what the Israel Government did. But likewise, the anti-Israeli media coverage is just beyond amazing. Where is the coverage of the above video on News.com.au or the Fairfax sites?
The truth is always some where in the middle. I suspect it is here, but you wouldn’t know it from the Australian press
The debate about saving the environment and rapid population growth/ immigration are intrinsically linked. You can’t seriously have both.
So how is it possible that groups like GetUp are both running open door immigration campaigns and save the environment campaigns?
You can’t rapidly increase population without the services to support the population. That means further development including roads, buildings, water and power.
Even if you won’t build new dams, you’re going to have to eventually increase water supply. Sure, there’s gray water, but that’s not going to supply all the water you need.
You need desal, and what does desal consume a lot of?
And then you have the contradiction of Australia being anti-nuclear power. Wind and sun doesn’t provide base load electricity, so you’ve got gas and coal left.
I could go on, but you get the idea.
Did someone say theocracy? 🙂
SMH: ‘Raunch culture’ worries government
The federal government says young people need to be more vigilant when it comes to sharing raunchy images of themselves.
Minister for the Status of Women Tanya Plibersek says there’s a lot happening in the youth culture that “completely passes adults by”.
She is especially worried about the “raunch culture phenomenon”.
Anyone would think there was an election this year and Chairman Rudd was chasing the elderly vote 🙂
My young son asks me…
My young son asks me: Must I learn mathematics?
What is the use, I feel like saying. That two pieces
Of bread are more than one’s about all you’ll end up with.
My young son asks me: Must I learn French?
What is the use, I feel like saying. This State’s collapsing.
And if you just rub your belly with your hand and
Groan, you’ll be understood with little trouble.
My young son asks me: Must I learn history?
What is the use, I feel like saying. Learn to stick
Your head in the earth, and maybe you’ll still survive.
Yes, learn mathematics, I tell him.
Learn your French, learn your history!
Bertolt Brecht
The Age: India warns on student attacks
INDIA has warned the Brumby government over continued attacks on Indian students in Melbourne, complaining about a lack of official data on the nature of the violence.
The Human Resource Development Minister, Kapil Sibal [said]..”Though the incidents have been on the decline, they still continue to happen, and this is a matter of deep, deep concern to us,” he said.
”We do not have the benefit of the data, and we would expect the state government to actually share that data with us.
Let met get this right; VicPol and the Victorian Government are addressing the issue and the attack rate is seriously down (actually, the murder rate is up but only because Indians keep killing each other here), but that’s not good enough because the Indian Government believes that VicPol should be providing data on the ethnicity of attack victims in Victoria to them.
Which part of non-discriminatory policing don’t they get? Or is it a case that the Indian Government believes its citizens are somehow more important than citizens from other countries in Australia, or even locals?
And here’s another thing: attacks continue to happen in Victoria to everyone….just like they do in places like….lets see….India. No one likes it, but it’s a sad fact of life in a modern society…even a place like Victoria which doesn’t have a caste system.
The Age: Put soft porn out of view: experts
MORE than 30 of Australia’s leading child experts are calling for an unprecedented ban on the sale of adult magazines such as Playboy and Penthouse and other ”soft porn” material from newsagents, milk bars, convenience stores, supermarkets and petrol stations.
Lets ignore the implications for the ever increasing Australian theocracy the proposal offers, and look at the part I emphasised.
So who’s on this list of “child experts” you may well ask?
Tim Costello, CEO World Vision
What they left off was Tim Costello is the Reverend Tim Costello. Yep, people in charge of churches are most definitely children experts
Noni Hazlehurst, AM, actor, child advocate
Yes, an actress who is most famous for having hosted Play School. Definitely an expert
Clive Hamilton, AM, Professor of Public Ethics at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethic
LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL. Clive Hamilton shouldn’t be let near adults, let alone children.
There are others as well. Hetty Johnson springs to mind: when did never shutting the fuck up qualify you as an expert on children exactly?
There’s names on the list I don’t recognize, but since when does a law degree or MBA make you a expert on children again?
1 in 10,000 people probably shouldn’t drive cars (in particular, anyone who lives in Balwyn) but the Government doesn’t check their names when they leave their driveways to see if they’re abusing the road or not. Why exactly are we being punished here again?
vs
Both shots taken at the same time 24 March 2010.