Ron Hedgecock, one of Australia’s oldest diagnosed Aspies, is 72. He’s an Aussie actor, a lecturer in Phrenology and Art History and a public speaker about living with Asperger’s Syndrome. Here’s our interview:
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The world of diagnosis is very strange.
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11 Weeks into our new government and Kevin Rudd, the leader of Australia has had the courage to do what 41 previous Prime Ministers did not - to say the most important word in the healing of Australia’s racial division - the word ’sorry’.
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Edinburgh has it’s Fringe Festival and so does our own Aussie City of Festivals – Adelaide, South Australia. This Fringe Festival promises something really unique and to find out about it I interviewed Aspie colleague, Katharine Annear , an ASD Advisor with Spectrum Advisory Services
who works for Autism SA.
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The new year has an arty start indeed with my upcoming solo art show at Adelaide’s GRENFELL GALLERY.
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On an Australian TV show, Lateline, last night, Tony Jones talked to US energy and environment consultant, Terry Tamminen. They discussed our embarrassingly sycophant Prime Minister’s relationship to the US president, George Bush, regarding climate change.
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A recent article in The Age, shocked me with its findings. 240 million cigarette butts a year are washed down storm water drains and end up in Melbourne’s water ways and finally Port Phillip Bay. They are part of the 7.2 billion cigarette butts tossed in Australia each year, part of an estimated […]
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INTERVIEW WITH AWARD WINNING SINGER SONGWRITER JANETTE GERI
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There’s a lot of controversy about what a dag is and many people mistakenly confuse Dags with Bogans. Bogans are Bogans. Dags are Dags. Just as some Geeks are Trekkies (but not all), and some Goths and Punks are also Emos (but certainly not all) some Dags are also Bogans […]
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