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Female ALP Leaders Handed Poison Chalices
Reading commentators from Australia’s right wing biased, News Corp, newspapers, one would think that PM Julia Gillard had been handed a dream run when accepting the opportunity to topple Kevin Rudd, back in 2010. But these commentators readily forget how “on the nose” Rudd was by this time, after an extended honeymoon period at the […]
Polymath
August 13, 2011
Having multiple talents and pursuing them in the marketplace, is it a blessing or a curse? I have a number of interests and have invested time in each of them and have achieved a level of proficiency in several of these pursuits. Does this entitle me to express these in the marketplace as vocations or […]
Kitchen gods and the sacrifice
August 12, 2011
Excerpt from – House Therapy – Discovering who you really are at home! By Sudha Hamilton House Therapy is Sudha’s soon to be published new book. The Kitchen The Ancient Greeks, who gave us many of the founding principles upon which we base our modern societies – democracy; logic; philosophy; literature and poetry to […]
Stages of Our Mental Journey
July 9, 2011
Heading: Stages and Phases of the Mental Journey. Subheading: Exploring consciousness, linguistics and language. “O, what a world of unseen visions and heard silences, this insubstantial country of the mind! What ineffable essences, these touchless rememberings and unshowable reveries! And the privacy of it all! A secret theatre of speechless monologue and prevenient counsel, an […]
One God
May 4, 2011
Today in the harsh daylight of our overcrowded cities, in developed nations around the globe, we are encouraged to worship only one god, the holy dollar. People are rushing about in their cars, and on public transport, to reach their destinations, their places of work and of investment, where labour and lead may be turned […]
Who Murdered Chaucer?
April 14, 2011
Who Murdered Chaucer? Book Review Who Murdered Chaucer? – A Medieval Mystery By Terry Jones, Robert Yeager, Terry Dolan, Alan Fletcher, Juliette Dor Methuen, 2004. Geoffrey Chaucer, poet and most importantly one of the earliest literary stars of the English language, was the author of The Canterbury Tales – a celebrated collection of verse […]
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