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Archive for June, 2009

Extra Connex People At Parliament Station

Posted in Government, Opinion, Travel, tagged on June 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

So what’s the extra Connex people on the platforms at Parliament station achieving? The cynics amongst us might say it gives the company more visibility close to where key contract decisions get made. Wouldn’t it be better spending the money on having more suburban stations manned and making the service safer at night?

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Imperial Kingdom – Yum Cha

Posted in Family, Food, tagged on June 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

We had one of those happy occasions today where we got the whole family together for lunch – had a great time. Where did we go? Yum cha at the Imperial Kingdom, 546 Waverley Road (cnr Blackburn Road), Glen Waverley. Googling “imperial kingdom glen waverley” seems to do the trick if you need more details. [...]

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Tokenism

Posted in Opinion, tagged on June 21, 2009 | 9 Comments »

The ever growing popularity of social media sites such as Twitter and Facebook has resulted in people taking up a lot more causes. Recent examples of this are the campaign to change a Twitter avatar to green as a form of protest against the alleged rigging of the Iran elections, and a plethora of Facebook [...]

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National Times Reborn

Posted in Media, Opinion, tagged , on June 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

The Age is reporting this morning that Fairfax is going to relaunch the National Times, as an online edition. Fantastic! My previous blog entries probably give some clues about what I think about the Australian media industry in general. Generally low quality and constantly looking for sensation rather than strong analysis and reporting. If Fairfax [...]

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Gordon Ramsay v Tracy Grimshaw

Posted in Media, Opinion, tagged , , on June 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Australian media organisations – GIVE ME A BREAK! How many human rights atrocities occurred? How many children from third world countries died of malnutrition? How many people died from cancer? How many innocent people were attacked in the streets? How many people were belted up by their partners? While you have been giving these mindless [...]

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Werribee Open Range Zoo

Posted in Animals, Family, Photography, Travel, tagged on June 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

We’ve had a couple of free tickets to the Werribee Open Range Zoo stuck on the fridge for a while. When we looked at them the other day, we realised they expired in a week or so, so decided to go and check it out today. I’d been to Werribee Zoo a couple of times [...]

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Australia Qualifies For The World Cup, Not That The ABC Cares

Posted in Football, Media, Opinion, Sport, tagged , on June 7, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Australia has once again qualified for the World Cup, following a draw with Qatar overnight. This is a fantastic effort, qualifying for two World Cups in a row, in a sport that has not traditionally been a national strength. It speaks volumes for the progress football has made in recent years. But it clearly doesn’t [...]

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Australasian Inter-service Incident Management System (AIIMS)

Posted in Emergency Management, Red Cross, tagged on June 5, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Well, isn’t that a mouthful? I wanted to spend a bit of time blogging about AIIMS. Why? Firstly, it’s something that I need to become much more strongly across than I am at the moment. I figure that if I have to write about it, to do that properly, I’ll need to read all the [...]

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In Support Of The CFA

Posted in Emergency Management, Opinion, tagged , on June 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

The evidence seems to be mounting that the Country Fire Authority (CFA) is going to end up being the whipping boy as a result of the Royal Commission into the February fires in Victoria. The Sunday Age (May 31, 2009, page 3) is reporting that the CFA believes the senior counsel assisting the commission is [...]

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