I’m on ventilation due to an Acquired Central Hypoventilation Syndrome which means I can’t fall asleep without my machine… anywhere. My machine is named Pandora… after the movie Avatar as Sam Worthington uses a ventilator in that film which allows him to survive in Pandora. I decided to vamp up Pandora. Got the glitz from a craft shop. Read the rest of this entry »

As we’re well aware, Tony Abbott has a close relationship with Gina Rhinehart, coal mining heiress and major funder of the Liberal Party. Read the rest of this entry »

This month’s artworks are a series: Peace, Intimacy, Letting Go Read the rest of this entry »

How Tony Abbott represents Australia at the G20 Read the rest of this entry »

In the recent New Matilda article: Professor Barry Spurr Is The Smoking Gun Of Institutional Racism By Chris Graham, Professor Spur was quoted directly:

TO: Barry Spur
FROM: (CLOSE FRIEND)

Goodness, what different times.

Today, (A COLLEAGUE) told me of a problem at (A COMPANY). Some harlot (A WOMAN) went back to a room party when her key would not work and waiting, went to sleep on the bed. Another (PERSON AT THAT COMPANY) put his penis in her mouth, as you do, and she called the police.

I told (MY COLLEAGUE) she was a worthless slut who will now cause this poor chap, who certainly did not adhere to Debretts, years of imprisonment with big black chaps because she is a worthless slut who should not have been there. In Dubai, she would be locked up as well. The muzzies are not all wrong about this.”

Professor Spurr replied to the email the following day.

Reeling from that story. Ye Gods. I think she needs a lot put in her mouth, permanently, and then stitched up.

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THE HOUSE:

When I was born, my parents lived in a rented house at 7 Rowell Ave in Camberwell. They moved when I was a week old, first to Thornbury, then to Regent, and then in the summer of January 1972, when I was 8 years old, my family moved from the small rented house into a big two story house at 664 Bell St Preston. By mid 1972 they had put in a built-in swimming pool, well supplied bar, snooker table, chandeliers, mirror walls, and filled with antiques and racks of guns displayed openly on the walls. There was a revolver in the drawer of the front dresser just inside the front door. Read the rest of this entry »

More than 120 Muslim scholars from around the world joined an open letter to the “fighters and followers” of the Islamic State, denouncing them as un-Islamic by using the most Islamic of terms. Relying heavily on the Quran, the 18-page letter released Wednesday (Sept. 24) picks apart the extremist ideology of the militants who have left a wake of brutal death and destruction in their bid to establish a transnational Islamic state in Iraq and Syria. A translated 24-point summary of the letter includes the following: Read the rest of this entry »

Visual perceptual disorders Read the rest of this entry »

Death and After Life by Donna Williams Read the rest of this entry »

This month’s artwork is titled ‘Release’. Read the rest of this entry »