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Sometimes through life you run into famous people - we call these 'brushes with fame' in my family. Recently I was reminiscing with friends about two brushes with fame that related to well-known international politicians. Many years ago - in the mid 1990's - in Sydney
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Speaking with friends who are educators of the young one, thing has become apparent. The idea that learning is achieved by building foundations or layers of knowledge is passe. The MTV generation want their learning pre-packaged and easily digested. No more learning the basics and practising them to become expert
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It is with a grateful heart that I realise that it is only 26 more sleeps until the Australian election is over. Perhaps to liven things up during the campaign they should make the contenders put on sumo wrestling suits & fight instead of the extremely dull debate they had
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Ally often has an amusing turn of phrase, recently she said that another blog she had read "reminds you of the time the light went on for you and you realized that conservatism was not as dorky as it originally sounded - hell, maybe even those dumb conservatives had
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Picture two different women competing in the Australian team at the recent Athens Olympics. The first had the misfortune to injure herself a few weeks prior to competition. She had surgery & vowed to compete in the games. Jan Pitman ran in the 400m hurdles at the Games, but she
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Chris in a recent post over at Points of Information has a nice perspective on compulsory voting: "forcing indifferent people to turn out means that you drastically increase the amount of noise in your electoral system, reducing the quality of the results you get". One thing Chris might
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More food for thought from Ally about women, men & feminism ... As Ally notes, "What too many women do not understand is just how privileged we truly are - especially in today's climate in the free world. We are not caged by our womb - we are
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According to Yvonne Roberts, society has not shaken off stereotypes of mothers, homemakers or tarts : Why a man can't see the other woman Hmmm, of course there are no negative stereotypes associated with men. That's why they are so happy that they are killing themselves at
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John Howard claims that "Labor [is] returning to IR 'dark ages'", The Sydney Morning Herald, August 7, 2004 But the Opposition workplace relations spokesman, Craig Emerson, said Labor was proposing a federal system similar to that now operating in NSW and Queensland, two of the strongest
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It is fascinating to note the abundant and well groomed hair of all of the Presidential candidates in the US. This is very different to Australia where neither of the current contenders for Prime Minister has very good hair at all. In fact, a recent survey by Wahl - the
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Killer Clutter - 25 June 2004Irritable Desk Syndrome I just knew it. Sitting at your desk all day is bad for you! Meetings, on the other hand, are good for you. There is the exercise you get on the way to and from the meeting, the interaction with other people,
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Gmail is a fabulous idea. But I cannot wait until it gets out of beta. Current performance issues have been a little frustrating, as has the problem in receiving emails from hotmail. It feels like it is not on a production level server as there are lots of time-outs. The