I love race day. From the moment I get up, I am as excited as Bryan Taylor at the football. I had an early breakfast and double checked I had everything I needed, then it was time to jump in the car. The pre-race atmosphere around the start line is intoxicating (not in the same way that the atmosphere before the Dr Phil show is intoxicating though- allegedly) and I moved around eagerly, greeting friends and soaking up the energy. Read Full Report
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Wow! Just like that, the next Tasmanian election became important. The Tasmanian Liberal Party have been nowhere near as incompetent, corrupt or divisive as their federal counterparts. Add to that some comparatively progressive positions on refugees and Marriage Equality and they are closer to the Labor opposition than the federal government. So I was pretty ambivalent about the results of the upcoming election, figuring that even if I vote Green or independent, whichever major party took office would likely do much the same. At least, I was ambivalent. But then Labor leader, Rebecca White, announced her party would phase out poker machines over the next five years and I became very interested.
Read Full Article Over a bottle of wine on New Year’s Eve, the beautiful Aimee asks me to help her tick an item off her bucket list, but I’d need to take off the clothes I was wearing. Obviously there was only one thing she could have been referring to. We were going paddle boarding (that is what you were thinking right?) So the next morning we met at the northern edge of Kingston Beach with our boards. I’m wearing my boardies and a life jacket (I had learnt from Malcolm Turnbull’s example during the week and definitely wasn’t leaving that behind). We waded in until the cool water was up to our shins, before dropping our SUPs (stand up paddleboards) onto the water and climbing on. Read Full Article |
I realised that the website was getting a little difficult to keep track of and people would have no way of keeping track of which new posts were recent. I will use this page to display links to any new articles from now on.
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