I’m gonna have a go at Reconciliation.

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This is my passion at the moment - The Gap. It has been for about 3 years actually, but it's taken this long for me to find someone to help me enter the world of Aboriginal Australia. I know that sounds ridiculous but honestly, it's so much harder than I ever thought it would be to meet and engage with Aboriginal people. It feels like there's disinterest and mistrust from the Aboriginal side, and I don't blame them. You can't just rock up to an Aboriginal person and tell them you want to...

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Marriage Sux. Mkay.

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It is strange, even to me that I feel compelled to comment on the demise of Andrew G's marriage to the mysterious Noa Tishby. Strange because I neither like nor dislike Andrew G, I couldn't even be bothered looking up his last name which he prefers to "G" these days (Ginsberg?), and also because I still think of him as the long-haired guy from channel V's what u want. He was on with a great girl called Paula I think. What ever happened to her? Anyway, I am not judging Andrew's relationship...

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Got it? Don’t need it? You could Givit!

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What a funny old day. My chronic reflux makes it feel like my stomach acid is eating it's way out of my body, probably particularly bad today because I knew I had to confront a former friend about her catty, corporate crap in front of a room full of men who'll no doubt chalk the entire thing up to our cycles being in sync. Whatevs. So I jump in my car and start punching around the dial when I hear the magical high-pitched chuckle and broken English of His Holiness the Dalai Lama. The...

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My Lotto lovin’ lover.

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“What are you doing?” I asked my husband. He was wrapped neatly in his dressing gown and slippers, and closely examining something in the morning lounge-room light. He was of course unable to hear my question as he is afflicted with the masculine inability to do two things at once. His ability to do one thing at once can depend on an alarming number of variables. You should see him psych himself up to call in a dinner order. My God, you’d think he had to cook the curries and drive...

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My Big Gay Day.

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I was so grateful to be invited back to Big Gay Day this year. This time last year I was busy fending off serious allegations of homophobia. It was hideous, and printed in every gay publication and website in the country. The complaint, that I'd vilified transgender people on the radio, went to the highest level of Commercial Radio Australia, the potential penalties for me and for the radio station just didn't bare thinking about. The complaint was ultimately dismissed, but you know, shit...

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Redcliffe Guinea Pig Show – a photo essay.

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For a minute percentage of humans, the activity they spend the most time on, i.e. work, is also their greatest joy and passion. For the rest of us there are hobbies. They give us something to work for, come home to, and try to force our children to love. Most importantly hobbies give us an excuse to drink alone in the garage. I've decided that my new hobby is photographing people partaking in theirs, so please let me know of any opportunities in the Brisbane/Sunshine Coast area. In the...

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More Houston Happiness.

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Thank you so much to the wonderful @saltmarsh for drawing my attention to this little piece of Houston history. It's hard to remember that there was an innocent Whitney, a Whitney before Bobby. A Whitney who may well have believed that crack is wack. There are many humans alive today who have no recollection of vintage Whitney, hated on by many of her African American community who thought she was so pure, that she was trying to be "white". She was booed by the largely African American...

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If this doesn’t make you happy, you are dead inside.

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Long time no blog. First I was completely twitter focussed during the Brisbane flood as we all discovered a use for the medium other than screaming our reality TV disappointments and triumphs into the universe and sharing pics of Bruce Springstein's pubes. Then I was just really tired from the flood. Now I'm still tired and a bit shocked and awed at the size of Tropical Cyclone Yasi which is steaming toward North Queensland as I type. Is it the natural order of things? Is it Global...

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Why won’t we be warned about being warmed?

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This picture could be of Rockhampton today, or Ballarat in September or Charleville last March. It's actually a town in Pakistan taken about 6 months ago. 20 million people were directly effected by that flood. 4.6 million Chinese people were evacuated from their homes in May 2010 when their country flooded. 23 000 people were evacuated due to flooding in Central Europe at the same time. Scary eh? Honestly I'm not really scared about it because I just can't be bothered. Of course...

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Final thoughts, rumours and an email already from Phnom Penh.

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So, back home now. Just put my two babies to bed after oodles of their favourite dinner; Dad's bolognese and a custard chaser. After dinner they sat on the floor and watched an episode of their favourite show, "Wonderpets" and then were carried to their cots, where they lay watching the usual fuss between their Dad and I over what setting to leave their air-conditioner on. How to keep them conscious of their good fortune without nagging 'til they switch off, that is the question upon which...

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