2016-03-19 18:53
This is a new dawn in gaming. A totally different way in playing computer games. You no longer move your character with your mouse inside a virtual game world, but you are actually getting o… Read More
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2016-03-19 18:53
Major newspapers, and especially SMH, have every article designed to generate clicks. An article about exploiting young girls happy snaps for money (aka soft child abuse) can… Read More
2016-03-19 18:53
“As Editor of the Macquarie Dictionary, I picture myself as the woman with the broom and mop and bucket cleaning the language off the floor after the party is over. And in this ca… Read More
2016-03-19 18:53
"Hungry Turkish Ladies from Outer Space". A B-movie or NASA's alien audience of the Voyager space probes?When in 1977 NASA launched the two Voyager, it assigned Dr Carl Sagan… Read More
2012-10-18 20:50
“As Editor of the Macquarie Dictionary, I picture myself as the woman with the broom and mop and bucket cleaning the language off the floor after the party is over. And in this ca… Read More
2012-05-22 10:54
The tactics to colonize Africa are the same today as they were centuries back: Invest in one small group of people, by supporting and bribing kings and dictators; make them rich so you can c… Read More
2012-05-22 10:54
With Google products, you can use their “Data liberation” tool, where you can download your photos as a .zip file, all your profile data and contacts. Even Blogger here gives you… Read More
2012-05-22 10:54
Add the following three commands to a script and assign the script to a button:1) A Send Event. Clear the “Bring target app to foreground” and enter in Calculation. The calc… Read More
2012-05-22 10:53
26 of January is a historic day for Australia and it needs to be reminisced with a Public Holiday. It is the day that the colonisation of NSW started by the British. The colonisation was not… Read More
2012-05-22 10:53
The HBO soundtrack has songs written for the show by contemporary artists.However, here is the list for the original releases of those songs, from the 1920's.From Archives.org, free to downl… Read More
2012-05-22 10:53
Australian federation is proud to have come to being, not by a revolution or an occupation, but after a democratic process, where people voted to become one nation. There were many reasons w… Read More
2012-05-22 10:53
Although the Stolen Generations had both boys and girls forcibly abducted from their parents, the fate of the girls were different. Based on the sexual discrimination that already existed in… Read More
2012-05-22 10:52
The Stolen Generations was the epitome of racist policies in Australia. Those policies align very closely with the definition of the crime of Genocide as per the resolution 260(III), adopted… Read More
2012-05-22 10:52
As the Anzac legend is short on acknowledging women’s contributions, same can be said for the one for Indigenous Australians. Although initially Aborigines were banned from joining the… Read More
2012-05-22 10:52
We have been using the Anzac legend as our nation’s flag, to explain who we are and why we have the right to exist as a country. But this legend is flawed; it talks about the fight and… Read More
2012-05-22 10:52
While Australians after Federation were trying to find out what “being an Australian” really means and what the qualities of the Australian ethnicity were, the First World War br… Read More
2012-05-22 10:52
There were many reasons why the colonies federated to become one country and most of them were for economic reasons: Trade, labour, telegraph and railways. Another reason put forward was def… Read More
2012-05-22 10:52
While discrimination against different races and cultures was legislated in the new Federation, the discrimination against sexes took a different course. Women received the right to vote in… Read More
2012-05-22 10:51
At Federation, when part of the new legislation enacted by the new parliament was the White Australia Policy, the issue of race in the Australian psyche took centre stage. It is striking tha… Read More
2012-05-22 10:51
The turn of the 20th century brought a transformation to the Australian political landscape, with the formation of ideology-driven parties, the birth and establishment of the Labor party, an… Read More
2012-05-22 10:51
An ISP filter will not only restrict internet to children, but also to parents. What is more applicable is something for our own computers, a local filter. This website http://www.cybersmart… Read More
2012-05-22 10:51
The Interenets has scared the old generations. They realised that this new world of instant communication and information is not as controllable as it was some decades ago. You can censor an… Read More
2012-05-22 10:51
The 260(II) resolution of the UN, article 2e states clearly that forcibly transferring children of the group to another group is Genocide. Reason being is that children is our future, if you… Read More
2012-05-22 10:50
The Anzac myth has been used by some to create passionate responses by the crowds for certain reasons. Like any banner, it is constructed by a specific iconography, which might have little t… Read More
2012-05-22 10:50
I will use an abstract from a lecture by John Bannon, ex-Premier of SA, given in 2009 in the SA Parliament, about the “Constitution Founders”, which was focused on the personal e… Read More
2011-11-11 20:42
The Stolen Generations is a clear case of racism. However, one of the reasons why white Australians resorted to racism was because they were trying to safeguard their idea of the Australian… Read More
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