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tcpipThis afternoon I took a visit to the Melbourne Exhibition Buildings polling centre and cast my vote for the Federal election. I am increasingly confident that this will be a Labor victory, probably with a national swing of 5% or so. YouGov has published their own demographic-based poll which has Labor on-track to win 80 seats, Morgan has a predicted vote at 54.5% vs 45.5% TPP, Newspoll at 54-46, and Ipsos at a remarkable 57-43. I cannot see for the life of me how the Coalition can recover so much lost ground in a little over a week, especially by "desperate, unhinged" comments over an additional 38c per hour for minimum wage workers - I have my own comments on that which I will write up tomorrow.
From a different angle on civic involvement this Sunday I am giving an address at the Melbourne Unitarian Universalist Fellowship at 11 am at the Kathleen Syme Centre in Carlton entitled "We Are We Do: Emotions, Trauma, and Happiness". On a related matter of volunteer activities as a member of the BPD Community Carer's Committee my first practical task - the writing of a recruitment and induction process - has been completed. There is a sense in which my Sunday address I will be thinking a great deal of my old friend from the Melbourne Unitarian Church, Marg Callow who died just on Monday just shy of 99 years old. I will have to do a longer and more dedicated entry about this, as consideration of this remarkable, kind, and intelligent individual deserves a great deal of consideration.
Going backward a few more days (as my last entry was entirely about the election), I should also make mention of a couple of other "community-minded" activities I have engaged in. The most recent was writing a brief review of the works of electronic and early trance musician Klaus Schulze for Rocknerd. How does one possibly summarise six decades of work and more than sixty albums? One cannot do it justice, but the attempt must still be made. Also on the aesthetic dimension, last Friday I attended a Slow Friending dinner game organised by the magnificent Miriam G, of the Wild Arts Social Club. There were close to fifty people in attendance at Platform 28 (a boring mainstream venue, but a very nice function room) as we rotated between tables between courses and discussed challenging questions placed before us. And that's the week of civic involvement; politics, religion, and art - no wonder I'm such a disagreeable fellow!
From a different angle on civic involvement this Sunday I am giving an address at the Melbourne Unitarian Universalist Fellowship at 11 am at the Kathleen Syme Centre in Carlton entitled "We Are We Do: Emotions, Trauma, and Happiness". On a related matter of volunteer activities as a member of the BPD Community Carer's Committee my first practical task - the writing of a recruitment and induction process - has been completed. There is a sense in which my Sunday address I will be thinking a great deal of my old friend from the Melbourne Unitarian Church, Marg Callow who died just on Monday just shy of 99 years old. I will have to do a longer and more dedicated entry about this, as consideration of this remarkable, kind, and intelligent individual deserves a great deal of consideration.
Going backward a few more days (as my last entry was entirely about the election), I should also make mention of a couple of other "community-minded" activities I have engaged in. The most recent was writing a brief review of the works of electronic and early trance musician Klaus Schulze for Rocknerd. How does one possibly summarise six decades of work and more than sixty albums? One cannot do it justice, but the attempt must still be made. Also on the aesthetic dimension, last Friday I attended a Slow Friending dinner game organised by the magnificent Miriam G, of the Wild Arts Social Club. There were close to fifty people in attendance at Platform 28 (a boring mainstream venue, but a very nice function room) as we rotated between tables between courses and discussed challenging questions placed before us. And that's the week of civic involvement; politics, religion, and art - no wonder I'm such a disagreeable fellow!
