This is Ritalin, boy. It’s good for you.
This is how the first candid national discussion of racism in Australia was aborted before time:
JOURNALIST: So you’re saying there was no element of race or racism in the riots on the weekend?
PRIME MINISTER: No, I said what I said. I do not believe Australians are racist. I thought the behaviour yesterday was quite unacceptable […]
Aussie coppers are going back into Papua New Guinea after the Enhanced Cooperation Program was resuscitated today. Apparently there will be no uniformed or plainclothes police on the beat, as there were before the Plan fell over. Federales will be put into key posts, and some more civvys are going over too. But no firefights […]
After a period lost in the wilderness (the grasshoppers and wild honey were delicious, thanks for asking), HPS notes that the Doug Wood story is still playing in the papers (Hey! Scottish Guy! If news is slow, stories can be faked! Once again, U.S. = one step ahead of Australia).
Any ways, we think an extended […]
In the past few weeks there’s been some interesting developments on the ’shoe incident’ - the diplomatic quibble that’s acting as a proxy war for tensions between Australia and Papua New Guinea over the forms of aid to PNG.
On Tuesday, Sir Michael Somare, the PNGuinean PM, made a speech to his Parliament saying that he […]
HPS had a particular interest in the outcome of this papal conclave. As you may have worked out, we’re of the Catholic persuasion.
Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger’s elevation to the Bishopric of Rome and the Papacy is, for us, the worst possible outcome, and coming as it did on only the third vote (by our count), […]
(image from BBC News) I’ve wanted to make a fimo “dancing Kofi” doll in the likeness of the Secretary-General of the United Nations for some time now. Three factors stand in my way: I don’t have a car. Ergo, I don’t have a rear-view mirror. Ergo, Kofi cannot dance as he ought. […]
Photo taken from the China Daily. The sandy area is all reclaimed land. They just filled in the sea. For Disneyland.
A protest by part of Hong Kong’s fishing industry went ahead on Monday. Lantau fish farmers moored 10 of their boats off Lantau Island (which already holds the Po Lin Buddhist monastry, and Chep […]
The Papua New Guinean government today said that it would suspend its receipt of Australian aid to the country until it receives an apology for an embarrassing diplomatic mistake.
Remember it? Late last month, their Prime Minister, Sir Michael Somare, was made to undergo “lengthy security searches at Brisbane on his way to […]
Okay, so Charlie Kaufman wins the Best Screenplay Oscar and hell’s paving stones gets resuscitated. Coincidence?
“…I was waking up every morning freaking out. I thought my career was over” - That’s a quote from an Esquire magazine interview - Dec 2002, v.138, i.6, p139.
You and me both, Charlie, you and me both. Since […]
(photo from the Christian Science Monitor)
Last week, Colin Powell reinforced his ’sacrificial lamb’ status in the Bush Administration by awkwardly suggesting that the non-existence of an Iraqi weapons stockpile didn’t matter so much if you could prove Saddam’s intent to arm up. He suggested it so awkwardly that the Washington Post chose to interpret his […]