For a while I have been thinking of taking the Civil Unions issue (see previous articles) to the UN Commision for Human Rights. I have found 6 articles of the The Universal Declaration of Human Rights that the Howard Government has contravened in the process of overturning the ACT Civil Union act (and also in passing his Marriage act that states that marriage is between a man and woman. My one problem is that I can't really make a complaint that is generalised on behalf of all ACT resident...

Yes this thing again! I'm not usually the polictically active type except when something REALLY pisses me off. I don't go around trying to sell left wing papers, saying the word "facist" willy niily and I don't even wear a brightly coloured woolen beanies. But this issue has made me angry. I must stress this about fighting for YOUR vote to count NOT JUST homosexual rights. This about equal rights for all ACT residents, even if you are homophobic don't cut off your nose to spite your face,...

The quote speaks for itself:

Today we will do a thought experiment, a silly one but bear with me. Try this at home kids, no need to be a trained professional. Okay, just imagine that everything as is just as it is now but without money. It is as if this hypothetical world is a movie on DVD and we’ve press pause and erased the concept of money from the heads of all the actors in this movie. After we press the play button things will start to go to hell in a hand basket but we’ll just focus on how it is for now, a pristine...

Okay, well the scope of this topic is HUGE I mean absolutely gigantic. I spent a day thinking about it and I blew out all my brain cells. After I replaced them I had a massive panic attack and curled up in foetal position for a few hours. Then I calmed down and realised that it’s just a blog and I shouldn’t have so much performance anxiety over it. Give me time for my arguments to come together, to save you from reading book length articles I will often have to state something in one article ...