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Could we have some more truthful reporting in this election, please? Apart from the utter nonsense that the Murdoch press came out about the Green Party's policies, now we have the bombastic treatment of Labor's excellent education package. Sixty-seven of Australia's most well funded schools have a funding cut. Nine and a half-thousand government and smaller independent schools get their funding improved. Yet how does that supposedly liberal paper, the Sydney Morning Herald conduct their online poll? "Do you support Latham's school funding cuts?"

Personally, I think there is a just question on why private schools should receive any government funding whatsoever.

Well, apparently both having a diary and using computers makes you sick. That about wraps it up for livejournal, right?

I suspect not.

Here's something to jot in your diary. "Revisiting September 1999: East Timor and Australian Foreign Policy" a presentation by Clinton Fernandes on Tuesday September 28 at the Globalism Institute, Building 37, Floor 5, Room 32 of RMIT from 12.30 to 2 pm. For queries or to RSVP please email damian.grenfell@rmit.edu.au

Clinton Fernandes is, quite simply, the smartest person I've ever met. He'll be discussing Australia's late intervention as part of an analysis that also addresses the role of the 'Jakarta Lobby', the construction of Australian national interest, and Australian relations with the Indonesian government. Oh, and he's just about to be published: Reluctant Saviour (Scribe, 2004), a study of the Australia-Indonesia relationship in the lead-up to the East Timor crisis.

A meme! I think I picked it up from

unsworn. I want anyone and EVERYONE who reads this to post (whether you have an LJ or not) to write a comment telling me something that you'd like to do with me one day.

And yes, I will accept "going crazy broadway style".

Back in the real world, all goes well with my CCNA studies, my Cert in Business, work and my PhD - even if I barely have enough time to scratch myself. I'm feeling pretty certain about the CCNA and am up to the point where I'm picking over a couple of specific issues rather than having weak/strong chapters. With regards to work/cert prospecting for clients is proving quite successful. I find myself pitching at least 2 serious proposals per week, although a recent debate over a motor vehicle website has unearthed how deceptive some in the IT industry can be - and I'm not impressed! I do have a new business website - comments are appreciated... OK, late for class, got to go!

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I met you at tabouli's birthday. I was the pigtailed redhead. Thought you sounded interesting. Found the article on the 'health issues' of diary users to be rather amusing. Personally, I think writing can only be beneficial for people; ie sorting out their emotions in a constructive way. As for the Greens, I can only say I cheered when Bob Brown was the only one with the balls to finally go against George W Bush, when he came to Australia. I occassionally flick through the letters pages of both the Herald Sun and MX; always good to know thy enemy. Though it is disturbing that so many people read these.
See, what the article should be about is the 'health issues' of otherwise average, well adjusted people dealing with the idiots we call our leaders.

Ah yes, I remember you!

Not only did Bob Brown have a go at Bush, he also did the same for the Chinese leader... Not one to "play politics" in the sense we're used to.

The Herald Sun scares me, it's like a deliberate attempt to dumb people down. Mind you, it hasn't changed from 'The Herald' and 'The Sun' days. I remember finding a Herald WWII map of Europe in an antiques store in Richmond which included the sidebar explaining how actually our allies, the Russians, were of closer racial stock to the English than the Germans!

Nice icon may I add... And as for Tim Benzedrine.. pah!

Ah yes- he did too have a go at the Chinese leader. I'm glad he did it. China (as I'm assuming you'd already know) has one of the highest human rights abuses statistics in the world. But then why should our Government care if we can trade with them?
Researching for a ww1 script lately, I came across many a propaganda in concerns to the Turks and Germans at the time; scary scary that people would believe it. The Germans eat the flesh of their enemy, that kind of thing.
I recently came across the most insulting 'star' letter on MX, insulting, among others, environmentalists, people on benefits and homosexuality. I instantly replied. Of course, they didn't print mine. I'm going to write up both letters on my journal.
I'm glad you like the icon. :)

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