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. Read the rest of this entry »
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.
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 4.5 TRILLION cigarette butts tossed world wide which end up in waterways and oceans, leaking traces of 4000 toxic chemicals found in cigarette smoke and take 12 years to decompose. Read the rest of this entry »
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 but most Bogans don’t qualify as Dags. Lost? Then read on and it’ll become clear as mud. Read the rest of this entry »
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http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/viewArticle.asp?articleID=27926
DONNA WILLIAMS:
Hi Nick. We met recently over email and you kindly sent me a copy of Hollywood, Amarroo. It’s a very provocative book.
Could you tell the readers a bit about what compelled you to write it? Read the rest of this entry »
The Australian film industry has been involved in some memorable and groundbreaking films – Breaker Morant, Gallipoli, The Piano, Murial’s Wedding, Rabbit Proof Fence, Shine, Lantana, Ten Canoes. But with a population of only 20 million people, government funding for the film industry has always been limited and until now, the majority of recent Australian films have been made on an average budget of $4M per film (and many for less, as little as $1M-$2M) Read the rest of this entry »
Congratulations Four Corners.The US government may have gagged Australian, David Hicks, illegally imprisoned for five years, tortured and kept in solitary confinement for something that was no crime when arrested nor any crime under Australian law, but you, Four Corners, you have been a voice of the voiceless. Read the rest of this entry »
The local paper isn’t usually the place one expects riveting news but I was this week it was. Read the rest of this entry »
Our friend and wonderfully sharp, witty, blogger, Chris Borthwick, wrote an interesting entry about Phillip Ruddock’s foot-in-mouth episode regarding the illegal detention of David Hicks. Read the rest of this entry »
Donna Williams is an Australian born adult with autism who was assessed as psychotic at the age of 2 in 1965, labelled disturbed in the 1970s and diagnosed as autistic in her 20s in 1991.
She acquired functional speech in late childhood and went on to become a qualified teacher with an honors degree in Sociology and a degree in Linguistics. She is the author of two international bestselling autobiographies and has 10 published books including 4 text books widely used in autism education and two books of poetry and prose.
As a screenwriter, she wrote the screenplay to “Nobody Nowhere”, the first book in her 4 book autobiographical series. That screenplay is currently under option to become a Hollywood film. She is an professional artist, singer-songwriter and published poet as well as a world renowned public speaker on autism now living with her husband in Australia. In her presentations she draws not only on her own experiences but on international experience as a professional autism consultant since 1996.
Donna’s is a speaker in demand around the world due to her unique perspective and ability to share her feelings and experiences on a very personal level. More information about her and her life’s work can be found on her website at http://www.donnawilliams.net .