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The Brisbane Times reports that the new Australian citizenship test has been implemented, and people have begun to undertake the test in the hope of becoming citizens. The questions focus on Australia’s culture and history.
But I wonder, does the test reveal the darker side of Australia’s history and culture?
Perhaps by including a few of [...]
Michael Medved’s ‘Six inconvenient truths about the U.S and Slavery’ seems to be causing a lot of debate around the blogsphere.
You should have a read of this article - it is quite bizarre and almost sickening that someone could be capable of generating such revisionist bile. The first sentence is quite amusing…
Those who want to [...]
A fragile connection of thoughts on sampling and music.
My friend Alex emailed me a rather interesting Youtube link last night. It was a miniature documentary concerning a six second drum break that has seen much use in modern day music, particularly in the genres of hip-hop, drum’n’bass, jungle, and trance music. The documentary is called [...]
For me, there is just something that just doesn’t seem right about Triple J’s “J Awardâ€. Perhaps it could reflect my changing tastes in music or my skepticism about the quality of recent Australian releases.
If you look at the bands that get nominated for J Awards you cannot help but note that their names sound [...]
With much anticipation, I rushed home after my Monday night touch football game to catch Denton’s interview with Australia’s allegedly ‘most hated man’, Kyle Sandilands, radio shock jock and Australia idol judge. As much as it pains me to say it, despite my dislike for Sandilands, I felt compelled to see if his radio and [...]
You have to hand it to Stephen Keim. Keim, the defence lawyer for Mohamed Haneef, the man accused of association with the Glaswegian terrorists, leaked certain paragraphs and selective quotes to The Australian, from an allegedly classified federal police interview with the accused. To quote Keim from an article on Brisbane Times ([link]),
“You’ve got [...]