Swadeology

On Australia’s Vote for Same-Sex Marriage – Backstory

My home country is fighting with itself right now. The issue? Same-sex marriage. Rather than do what they were elected to do (legislate), the Australian federal government, which has the sole legal jurisdiction over the definition of marriage, decided to outsource its job to the people. They’re holding a nationwide, non-compulsory vote on whether or not the definition of marriage […]

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Cars

The 2017 Automotive Bucket List (Part 2)

After publishing what has turned out to be Part 1 of the 2017 Automotive Bucket List, last week, a few people pointed me towards cars that made me extend my thinking a little. The first two are both cars that I’ve thought about in the past and by rights, they should form part of my thinking today, too. To recap

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Cars

The 2017 Automotive Bucket List

Life has been a little bit unconventional since I last published an automotive bucket list back in 2014: I’ve taken a new job, which I absolutely love, but it’s a job that came with a 30% pay cut compared to my old job. I’ve moved half way around the world. I’ve formally separated from my wife and the relative financial

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Cars, Editorial

Please Support Jim’s Ride for a Cancer Cure

It’s that time of year when I ask you – once again – to support the endeavours of our mutual friend Jim Coggeshall as he participates in the Pan Mass Challenge to raise money for the Dana Farber Cancer Institute. This is Jim’s seventh tour in the Pan Mass challenge and my guess is that we’ve been supporting him for

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Cars

Saab Festival 2017

Everyone’s Saab Festival is different. Some people go for the cars. Some people go to dream. Some people go for their once-in-a-lifetime pilgrimage to Trollhattan. Some people go just to catch up with their mates. I last went to the Saab Festival in 2015 and I don’t think I wrote anything here about it. I was winding down from my

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Music

The 10 Best Prince Songs You’ve (Probably) Never Heard

This week marks the first anniversary of Prince’s death. He was the greatest musician of my lifetime, definitely one of the most prolific songwriters of my lifetime and arguably one of the best. He was, unarguably, the greatest showman. It still saddens me to know that he’s gone, that he passed alone like a junkie in an elevator, albeit an

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Editorial

A Short Study In Fake News

‘Post-truth’ was the Oxford Dictionary’s word of the year in 2016. If that (now) dubious honour doesn’t go to ‘Fake-news’ in 2017 – hyphenated for eligibility purposes only – then nobility and integrity must be counted as things of the past at the Oxford. No one phrase has embedded itself in political discussion quite like it this year. Fake News

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Auspol, Editorial

Up To Our Necks In It

I wouldn’t normally reproduce a friend’s Facebook status on here, but this has been with me all day. Thanks Nige, for letting me reproduce this post from yesterday: We were just driving over the Tasman Bridge and I saw a young lady climbing over the rail. I said to Rachael look she is going to jump. Took eyes off her,

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Editorial

Like the Minority of US Voters, I’m Choosing The Blue Pill

Theoretically, one should never say never, but as my mind stands right now, this will likely be my final post loosely based on the lying liar that a minority of voters chose to ascend to the office of President of the United States – Donald J Trump. It’s just my opinion, but most of those who voted for Trump took

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Editorial

Thoughts On The Election of Donald Trump

I didn’t see it coming, but then I’m far from the only one who’s saying that today. I am quite convinced that the Trump camp themselves didn’t see it coming, which is why they built the voter fraud narrative around a month ago as a side dish to the ‘rigged system’ main course. Notice how nobody’s complaining about the rigged

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Editorial

Donald Trump is President-Elect of the United States

I have a full day of work ahead of me so I’ll write my thoughts about the US election result when I get home tonight. For now, he’s something poignant from Radiohead that’s been on my mind since The Donald got The Big Mo around 12 days ago. “You do it to yourself……”

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