There has been a rash of articles this year talking about Anzac Day and how it has become Australia’s national day. My grandfather was an Anzac (a New Zealander – this has never been just about Australians). He wasn’t at Gallipolli, but he spent a few pretty horrible years in France on the Western Front, [...]
Archive for April, 2006
ANZAC Day
Posted in Life on 25 April, 2006 | 1 Comment »
Fashion Industry
Posted in Economics on 24 April, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
50% of Kathmandu, the clothing company, has just been sold by the founder, Jan Cameron. It made me ponder, in fashion week, just how snobby the fashion press is. Fashion week press is usually accompanied by articles about how Australian designers are just about to make it overseas, and isn’t it great that those Parisians [...]
Benefits of global warming
Posted in global warming on 23 April, 2006 | 3 Comments »
I’ve just had another idyllic Sydney day – a bushwalk by the harbour this morning, followed by a relaxing coffee in the sunshine – all brought to you by global warming.
It used to be that this time of year in Sydney was colder and wetter than the average now. Today wasn’t that warm (21 degree [...]
Scripture
Posted in Life on 18 April, 2006 | 5 Comments »
Now that C is at school, he does scripture once a week. As an atheist household, we were pretty against the idea, but the alternative was spending the time colouring-in with the other children with weird parents, so the three weird parents in the class agreed to rotate the children one term at a time [...]
Book Review: Nowhere People
Posted in Book Reviews on 16 April, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
This week’s book review is Nowhere People, by Henry Reynolds. Henry Reynolds is probably Australia’s most prominent exponent of what its opponents call the “Black Armband” school of colonial history. The Black Armband school of history (as contrasted by its originator, Geoffrey Blainey, with the “three cheers” school of history) focuses (in its opponents’ views [...]
Household delegations
Posted in Life on 15 April, 2006 | 1 Comment »
E is not feeling the best today, so I volunteered to take the boys and do the weekly shop. He decided against it, so we all did it together. The reason he decided against it? He didn’t trust me to do it properly.
This is a classic (reversed) gender stereotype – the housewife (to use the [...]
Income inequality
Posted in Economics on 13 April, 2006 | 1 Comment »
A recently published summary of the HILDA survey got a fair bit of press – the AFR and the SMH both did front page stories on Wednesday, and both picked completely different angles. So I had to go back to the source, to see what interesting nuggets I could pick out.
The Household, Income and Labour [...]
Female writers
Posted in Feminism on 13 April, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Lazy blogging, but I found this very interesting meme from Under the Ponderosa. I had to add an extra categorisation – for books which I own, but haven’t got around to reading, because there is an embarrassingly large number of those.
Bold the ones you’ve read.
Italicize the ones you have wanted/might like to read.
-Place a dash [...]
Responsibility
Posted in Work and life on 12 April, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
I haven’t bothered commenting on the AWB royal commission before, mainly because it seemed too depressing. Once again, a government has done the wrong thing and brazened it out because the voters don’t really care about the technicalities, and they have enough “I didn’t know stuff” to hide behind.
The latest evidence from Mark Vaile and [...]
Cooking
Posted in Life on 10 April, 2006 | 3 Comments »
At cake this afternoon a colleague was telling me this long involved story about his family, which ended with his six year old son telling his mother she was a hero and giving her three cheers for cooking tacos. So my colleague ended by telling me that all I had to do to get my [...]
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