Open letter to Jay Weatherill on #fuckwitgate
Dear Jay, we are both busy (you with trying to implement climate and energy policy while the Federal Government supplies only ridicule and chaos, me with finishing a thesis) so I will keep this as...
View ArticleWhat may Jay say? The alternative @JayWeatherill speech for #Openstate
The following document fell through a wormhole from an alternative universe, landing as a smoldering set of singed papers, with a comedy thump, on my desk. It purports to be an account of the speech...
View ArticleTurnbull’s Judgement – of Keating, Katter and Crabb #auspol
Annabel Crabb, in her book ‘Stop at Nothing’ about current Prime Minister (correct at time of publication) Malcolm Turnbull, recounts a phone call from ex Labor Prime Minister Paul Keating to then PM...
View ArticleWhat would a genuinely “empowering” #OpenState look like? @JayWeatherill
On Wednesday morning Jay Weatherill and 200 or so of Adelaide’s soi-disant cognoscenti gathered at Adelaide Oval, scene of triumph, disaster and foreigners hurling dangerous things at locals. Everyone...
View Article“Depends on what I was taking”– of coherence, ambiguity, classic works of art
So, writing something I shouldn't (I will retrolink to it), I stumble on this, about one of my favourite songs, 'After the Gold Rush' by Neil Young. Dolly Parton once commented about the making of her...
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