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If you haven’t yet heard of Kony 2012, you’ve probably been living under a rock for the past 24 hours. Put simply, it is one of the fastest and most pervasive guerrilla charity awareness campaigns I’ve seen. It has circled the globe a million times over and almost half of my Facebook friends list has … Continue Reading
Misinformed Xenophobic Fuckwits
Filed Under Australia, Politics with 8 Comments
I mentioned two weeks ago that “…there’s a nasty undercurrent of ‘us’ and ‘them’ when it comes to the issue of asylum seekers that sees a portion of Australians become racist, xenophobic fuckwits.” This email I received at work today just proves this: I cross ocean, poor and broke. Take bus, see employment folk. Nice … Continue Reading
Patriotism
Filed Under Australia, Politics, Travel with 7 Comments
I’m going to come out with another generalisation here: Americans tend to be more blindly patriotic than any other nationality. I find the fact that people can defend the lack of a liveable minimum wage and the tipping system absolutely appalling. Quite frankly, if there is no lawful national minimum wage standard which actually provides … Continue Reading
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