April 2008

Australia 2020

April 27, 2008

Ok, so I am a bit late commenting on this I know but last weekend the Rudd government hosted the Australia 2020 summit. An exercise in listening to a handpicked collection of 1000 Australians for new ideas or re-hashed old ideas. In the words of Russell Skelton: For one weekend a national conversation took place [...]

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Anzac thoughts

April 26, 2008

I watched a lot of television yesterday: the ANZAC day coverage. Moved and annoyed. My grandfather was an engineer during WWI – on the Western Front. He came back and married my grandmother sometime later. He lived to 91. It might be hard to argue that his life was shortened, but as I sat there [...]

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just as an aside

April 21, 2008

I seem to be keen on this writing thing today so I have had until recently it seems a rather swanky diary — a day timer which i was slowly starting to rely on as my solution to organisation and generally getting things sorted. Yet somehow rather stupidly I have misplaced it. Quite seriously perhaps [...]

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Quote

April 21, 2008

Found this interesting from Hugh Mackay an Australian thinker: “morality (because they) relate to our willingness- as individuals and as a society- to accept some responsibility for each other’s wellbeing.” Possibly Related Posts: heading to cold Saturday Snap: The view from down here A few random facts about me just for some fun — clay [...]

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RDO

April 21, 2008

I am having my first RDO today. I need it. I have been feeling under amazing pressure lately. I struggle even now to work out the words to describe it. So I won’t force it. I am spending it rugged up, listening to Tibetian music. Trying to be still. Tried a meditation today. It has [...]

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