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So….. how was your Australia Day?

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Mine was mixed. I spent the morning goofing around on The Circle, making testicle jokes with Russell Coight, and discussing Demi Moore's exhaustion with the other girls. I jumped into my car at about midday to head home, but before I pulled out of the channel 10 carpark I decided to have a quick squiz at news.com.au. I saw on my phone a tiny image I couldn't quite make out, but the headline was unmistakeable; "Prime Minister Dragged to Safety from Aboriginal Rioters." It was pretty much...

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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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Genocide tourism – hot or not?

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I was supposed to go to the animal sanctuary today. I was sitting in the back of a tuk tuk bright and early this morning having attracted much attention with my request to be taken to Phnom Tamao. Rove suggested I go as he loves it and has a tiger enclosure named in his honour. Long story short, I realised just in the nick of time what all the kerfuffel was about - the sanctuary was a two hour drive away. By the time we reached the end of the street I asked the driver to pull over so we could...

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Reconciliation – what it means to me

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This is a by a guest blogger, Megan Wallace, Treasurer, NSW Reconciliation Council volunteer. She is non-indigenous, but the love and pain all wrapped up together in this blog embody the spirit of reconciliation as far as I'm concerned. Thank you so much for your work Megan. Meshel xx I was born in Darkinjung country, and grew up there surrounded by bushland and beaches on the Central Coast NSW. Reconciliation was awakened in me when I was young, walking with my father along a beach near...

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