Politics

Is this really, still the lucky country?

March 31, 2010

I was watching “It’s not quite hollywood” last night, after my Tivo faithfully recorded it. It’s about the Australian period genre from the 70′s and 80′s. It started me thinking a bit. Yes a dangerous thing at the best of times. One of the thing that was brought up was, prior to the 70′s Australia [...]

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R18+ Classification for Games

December 17, 2009

In Australia right now. We are seeing more and more legislation and stupidity all under the guise of ‘we have to protect the children’. I thought that is why we have parents. Increasingly the freedoms you receive by being an adult (ie, over 18) being eroded by over zealous fringe groups trying to rescue us [...]

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Internet Censorship

December 16, 2009

I have been a little out of the loop recently, but this has bought me back out of my shell. Our lovely communication minister came out yesterday. Not in the gay sense of the word, but in the stupidity stakes. I never thought that Australia could have a communications minister that was less informed than [...]

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