On Wednesday of this week, Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard announced the much anticipated date for this year’s federal election – September 14th.  That’s right!  Australia is going to have a long election cycle, America style. What’s in store for the next eight months? Things started low-key enough at Australia’s monolithic news media company News Ltd.  They broke the news ...

Well guess its again well overdue for a blog from me now. In Sept I took the plunge and quit my middle management corporate job in London, packed my bags and moved to Vancouver. An unnerving feeling giving up your income and established lifestyle and throwing the cards in the air by jumping on a one way BA flight to ...

A belated Happy Australia Day everybody! Queensland is getting smashed with cyclones and some people are projecting that we will flood tomorrow!  Fortunately, it’s not expected to be anything close to the levels of 2011. The storms hit right across Queensland.  My sister in Rockhampton was without power and mobile reception for a day and the bridge near her street ...

Its 2008 and the Royal Rumble is at Madison Square Garden.  Superfly Jimmy Snuka is already in the ring as a surprise entrant.  The countdown hits zero.  Bagpipes start to play.  New Yorkers lose their minds.  And a feud that started with a Scotsman hitting a Fijian on the head with a coconut 30 years ago is re-ignited. So awesome.

A new Coen Brother’s film!  With John Goodman!  And Carey Mulligan! *sits patiently and waits for the film to find a distributor* Have a good weekend everyone!

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Melbourne Heart 2 Adelaide United 0 Sydney FC 7 (!) Wellington Phoenix 1 Central Coast Mariners 0 Newcastle Jets 0 Perth Glory 0 Melbourne Victory 1 Brisbane Roar 1 Western Sydney Wanderers 2 “This is pretty depressing” – Thomas Broich, post-match interview It’s not quite as bad as how things are in Wellington, but its pretty close.  Brisbane Roar lost ...

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