Sam Watson is the deputy director of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies Unit at the University of Queensland. Sam Watson is also a man who is completely out of touch with reality. In Yesterday’s newspapers Sam Watson was quoted as saying, “The word Creole comes from a period when people’s humanity was measured...
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Today Georgie Pilcher wrote a provocative little piece for the Daily Telegraph and Herald Sun about some mother who defended her ‘right’ to hit her 9 year old daughter with wooden spoon, and how the ‘spoon squad’ (I suppose some weird play on ‘goon squad’), being the police, intervened to defend the grade 3...
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Yesterdays papers had banner headlines announcing the death of actor Patrick Swayze. Swayze had been battling cancer for many months a finally succumbed at the age of 57. While a solid actor who appeared in a number of successful movies such as Ghost and Dirty Dancing Swayze will not go down as one...
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The Kennedy political dynasty looks to have finally come to an end, thankfully. While many media organizations wax lyrical about the achievements of Ted Kennedy there will only be passing mention of Mary Jo Koepechne, a political aid of Robert Kennedy who died in the company of Ted Kennedy under dubious circumstances. Unfortunately know one...
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