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Two things worth noting for the upper house (the big form):
1) Parties no longer get to say where your preferences go, whether you vote above or below the line. The only preferences that flow on are the ones you specifically mark. If you vote only a single "1" above the line, no preferences from you will flow on at all if that party doesn't get in.
2) The minimum number of preferences above the line is 1. The minimum below the line is 20.
(and for the vast majority of you who are not in Western Australia, enjoy some not-especially-depressing political info with no effect on your life)
Tamsin made a nice post for people to ask for/post cute/happy animal pictures etc and I was reminded that not everyone outside Australia has heard of tawny frogmouths, which are very cute weird muppety looking native birds. Another very cute local animal is the quokka, which looks like if a capybara was a jovial marsupial hobbit.
( Relatively mild discussion of emotional reactions to recent events which mentions suicide and transphobia as topics )
( Relatively mild discussion of emotional reactions to recent events which mentions suicide and transphobia as topics )
The 2023 Hugo Awards: A Report on Censorship and Exclusion
Leaked emails and files indicate authors and works deemed “not eligible” for the awards were removed due to political considerations.
Leaked emails and files indicate authors and works deemed “not eligible” for the awards were removed due to political considerations.
Postal votes are great and all
May. 17th, 2019 10:59 amBut this seems to be an inherent contradiction:
I checked and this is the only certificate to sign. So I have to sign to declare that I...signed the declaration??
Anyway: the toddler sized paper was easier to fill in thanks to cluey voter.
I declare that, before the close of the poll, I showed the unsigned postal vote certificate and unmarked ballot paper(s) to the witness; signed the certificate in the presence of the witness, marked the ballot papers and fastened the ballot papers to the envelope
I checked and this is the only certificate to sign. So I have to sign to declare that I...signed the declaration??
Anyway: the toddler sized paper was easier to fill in thanks to cluey voter.
Trying not to think about the election
Sep. 6th, 2013 06:08 pmSome useful election links. Must print out my 10000 pages of senate preferences, ug.
Anyway, uh....Here's some pretty trees.
Anyway, uh....Here's some pretty trees.
Feelings about All About My Romance
Jun. 11th, 2013 09:57 amSo! I finished "All About My Romance" today.
It's definitely not as well made as Coffee Prince, it's patchy and cheesily cliched in parts and I didn't like the characters or the main romance as much. Still, it was funny and likeable most of the time and the central story is interesting one and mostly works despite the flaws: two politicians from opposite sides have to figure out how to reconcile falling in love with their beliefs and the practicalities of political life.
These self contained little 16-17 episode shows are a nice length to tell a rambling romance with lots of fleshed out side plots, and by the end I was very invested, it even made me cry.
And now for some spoilery feels, because the ending left me...feelings-y. Even though chances are NOONE WILL READ THIS EVER.
( Read more... )
It's definitely not as well made as Coffee Prince, it's patchy and cheesily cliched in parts and I didn't like the characters or the main romance as much. Still, it was funny and likeable most of the time and the central story is interesting one and mostly works despite the flaws: two politicians from opposite sides have to figure out how to reconcile falling in love with their beliefs and the practicalities of political life.
These self contained little 16-17 episode shows are a nice length to tell a rambling romance with lots of fleshed out side plots, and by the end I was very invested, it even made me cry.
And now for some spoilery feels, because the ending left me...feelings-y. Even though chances are NOONE WILL READ THIS EVER.
( Read more... )
Election on August 21st!
Jul. 17th, 2010 01:28 pmIf you need to update your enrolment be quick! http://www.aec.gov.au/Enrolling_to_vote/Update_enrolment.htm
1) Our web server is going down for a week to protest the $^%&$& internet filter omg. This is more Cam's protest than mine but I'm in favour of it and I thought anyone who might encounter the website should realise it's down on purpose.
2)I just finished Disk 1 of The First Australians. It's a sobering antidote to the view of history and colonialism in stuff like regency romances and Avatar. It's a bit slow, but the choice to tell the stories of individuals, as much as possible in their own words or from the POV of their descendents, and let the facts of history come up naturally when relevant rather than dryly telling the "overall" narrative from on high makes it very compelling. It's often very sad of course: so many leaders as brave and determined as any Braveheart whose works are thoughtlessly destroyed by the settlers and government. But they also make a point of telling the stories of the modern descendants who have overcome the odds to preserve and celebrate their culture (including Aboriginal Tasmanians, despite "common knowledge" being that they all died out) . I've been watching it in bits over a month or so while I sew.
I know this sort of thing normally goes on my dw but it's so specifically Australian I deiced it should go on the journal with more of an Australian readership.
2)I just finished Disk 1 of The First Australians. It's a sobering antidote to the view of history and colonialism in stuff like regency romances and Avatar. It's a bit slow, but the choice to tell the stories of individuals, as much as possible in their own words or from the POV of their descendents, and let the facts of history come up naturally when relevant rather than dryly telling the "overall" narrative from on high makes it very compelling. It's often very sad of course: so many leaders as brave and determined as any Braveheart whose works are thoughtlessly destroyed by the settlers and government. But they also make a point of telling the stories of the modern descendants who have overcome the odds to preserve and celebrate their culture (including Aboriginal Tasmanians, despite "common knowledge" being that they all died out) . I've been watching it in bits over a month or so while I sew.
I know this sort of thing normally goes on my dw but it's so specifically Australian I deiced it should go on the journal with more of an Australian readership.
I read this post by nixwilliams suggesting people make icons of Family First senator Steve Fielding not existing (since he doesn't believe in climate change the greenhouse effect), so I googled him with a vague thought of just putting Nix's text over an image of him or something(*). And then this image of him dressed as a beer bottle was so perfect I had to make an icon of it. This one is pretty funny too but a bit blurry.
I might work on it some more after I have a shower :)
(*)I'm a sucker for art challenges
I might work on it some more after I have a shower :)
(*)I'm a sucker for art challenges
Now they're not even trying
Nov. 8th, 2008 06:15 pmSo you know how I said West Wing totally stole the plot of the current election? Well the Chief of staff of Obama Santos was the cute(*) and unrealistically snarky Josh Lyman, who was a senior advisor to the previous democratic president. Josh was apparently based on the democratic politician Rahm Emanuel.
And now? Rahm Emanuel is Obama's chief of staff. You have to watch Rahm Emanuel reads a love letter, really, it's bizarre (ok, he's a bit more Jon Stewart than Josh Lyman, but still)
(*)At least to me :)
And now? Rahm Emanuel is Obama's chief of staff. You have to watch Rahm Emanuel reads a love letter, really, it's bizarre (ok, he's a bit more Jon Stewart than Josh Lyman, but still)
(*)At least to me :)
West wing plagiarised the future
Nov. 7th, 2008 02:34 pmSo it's pretty clear that the writers of West Wing season seven, lacking the guidance of original show-runner Aaron Sorkin, decided that the best way to come up with a plot was to use a time machine to view the future and copy that.(nb, my understanding of american politics and the plot of west wing are both pretty fuzzy, feel free to corect parts!) EDIT:via ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
stephiepenguin, the new york times describes it better
( Cut for spoilers, though reality has pretty much done that already )
stephiepenguin, the new york times describes it better( Cut for spoilers, though reality has pretty much done that already )
(This grew from a comment I made on this entry of shineys_are_us's, and then today I got all inspired to post it by the american election)
( Various ponderings on nations and togetherness )
shineys_are_us's, and then today I got all inspired to post it by the american election)( Various ponderings on nations and togetherness )
I visited my family yesterday. The main reason was to give them a copy of my thesis (they were all suitably impresed by it's weighty unreadableness) but also to pick up an unlabelled and unexpected package addressed to me at their address (where I haven't lived for over 5 years)
Had lots of fun chatting to people, explained the cold war to my 10 year old brother Theo (who was vaguely aware of it: was it between China and Russia maybe? And what was communism anyway?) Even my 19 year old sister couldn't remember it, I suppose none of you munchkins do. How odd. Poor old grandma is still not the same after her illness, but much better than she was. Also played basketball (!!), thankfully Theo still hasn't hit the "better than Sophie at all things physical" barrier Michael did at around his age. Anyway, just as I was leaving, mum remembered the package, so I opened it. Inside was... a copy of the Lord of the Rings, and nothing else.
Now some of you will have heard me talk about this book. The copy of LOTR my mum got for me for my 17th or so birthday, and wrote a nice little message in. The book I lent to my boyfriend at the time, the boyfriend who the last time I saw him after we broke up, specifically for returning books we had borrowed, "forgot" my book. The book I have mourned with bitterness for seven years(*).
I and mum decided he must have finally finished reading it, he never was a very good reader.
Oh, and I gave it to Theo, since I already have a copy :)
(*)Not that I wasn't bitter about other things too.
Had lots of fun chatting to people, explained the cold war to my 10 year old brother Theo (who was vaguely aware of it: was it between China and Russia maybe? And what was communism anyway?) Even my 19 year old sister couldn't remember it, I suppose none of you munchkins do. How odd. Poor old grandma is still not the same after her illness, but much better than she was. Also played basketball (!!), thankfully Theo still hasn't hit the "better than Sophie at all things physical" barrier Michael did at around his age. Anyway, just as I was leaving, mum remembered the package, so I opened it. Inside was... a copy of the Lord of the Rings, and nothing else.
Now some of you will have heard me talk about this book. The copy of LOTR my mum got for me for my 17th or so birthday, and wrote a nice little message in. The book I lent to my boyfriend at the time, the boyfriend who the last time I saw him after we broke up, specifically for returning books we had borrowed, "forgot" my book. The book I have mourned with bitterness for seven years(*).
I and mum decided he must have finally finished reading it, he never was a very good reader.
Oh, and I gave it to Theo, since I already have a copy :)
(*)Not that I wasn't bitter about other things too.
Late night sleepy post
Mar. 17th, 2006 09:27 pmBut not an angsty one. It will be rather dull for nico_wolfwood, who just heard all this from me on the phone.
I would just like to comment that "Holidays from places that don't exist" is cool. I've only seen tonights, about Transdniestria, which is on the edge of Moldova (which I hadn't heard of either, I suck) near the Ukraine and is like this wierd throwback to communism while the rest of Moldova is all western (both are ex-USSR, with the lotsa poor peasants/a few rich 'businessmen' split that implies) The presenter went fishing with the Moldovan president then got arrested in Transdniestria for trying to film a secret russian army base, it was cool :)
Am..very tense about second interview on Tuesday (paid, as some people were unsure on this) I have to be all professional and self-PR-y which is not in my nature. Hanging out in unisfa and the maths department makes me forget that compared to normal people I'm really rather socially awkward :)
Currently reading "The Galactic Whirlpool", a David Gerrold Star Trek book I got for $2. Its odd reading original Star Trek, given I was a huge fan back in early 94(*) and haven't had much contact with it since then at all.
I know Sweden is large, but part of me feels I should introduceskaggig_man and furikoneko, so she could show him the sights and he could persuade her to come to sunny Oz for her postgrad.
(*)And then I discovered real science fiction, and have never looked back
nico_wolfwood, who just heard all this from me on the phone.I would just like to comment that "Holidays from places that don't exist" is cool. I've only seen tonights, about Transdniestria, which is on the edge of Moldova (which I hadn't heard of either, I suck) near the Ukraine and is like this wierd throwback to communism while the rest of Moldova is all western (both are ex-USSR, with the lotsa poor peasants/a few rich 'businessmen' split that implies) The presenter went fishing with the Moldovan president then got arrested in Transdniestria for trying to film a secret russian army base, it was cool :)
Am..very tense about second interview on Tuesday (paid, as some people were unsure on this) I have to be all professional and self-PR-y which is not in my nature. Hanging out in unisfa and the maths department makes me forget that compared to normal people I'm really rather socially awkward :)
Currently reading "The Galactic Whirlpool", a David Gerrold Star Trek book I got for $2. Its odd reading original Star Trek, given I was a huge fan back in early 94(*) and haven't had much contact with it since then at all.
I know Sweden is large, but part of me feels I should introduce
skaggig_man and furikoneko, so she could show him the sights and he could persuade her to come to sunny Oz for her postgrad.(*)And then I discovered real science fiction, and have never looked back
Things I have learnt tonight:
I have other things to say, but I'm feeling tired and grumpy after a long day. It was my paternal grandads funeral today. No need to be condolency, while I am a little sad about it I really didn't know him that well and we all knew it was coming. Really I only ever had one proper grownup conversation with him, just a few days before he died. He was surprisingly sharp (especially compared to my other, increasingly senile grandad) rather like Kieron (only atheist and conservative) with the saying something thoughtprovoking then looking at you quizzicaly while he evaluated your response, no wonder he freaked me out a little as a kid :)
I met all(*) my cousins who I haven't seen in like 7 years(**). My dads brothers kids have grown into fine young nerds of the not-socially-retarded kind. I think I may have persuaded the one at UWA to join Unisfa.
(*)Ok, strictly speaking all but the one who was busy. Stupid pedantic brain.
(**)They don't live far away or anything, but I think it's a common family trait to feel awkward organising things and wait for someone else to do it, and when everyone is a member of my family...*starts train of thought inspired by just finishing Critical Mass*
- Adding discordant chords and quick camera cuts does not make a dull political discussion less boring, just more surrreal
- We have one vote one value (we do??)
- The state libs and nats have broken up. (And they seemed so happy!)
- The state nats leader is adorable. "The nathionalth will have the balanth of power" indeed :)
I have other things to say, but I'm feeling tired and grumpy after a long day. It was my paternal grandads funeral today. No need to be condolency, while I am a little sad about it I really didn't know him that well and we all knew it was coming. Really I only ever had one proper grownup conversation with him, just a few days before he died. He was surprisingly sharp (especially compared to my other, increasingly senile grandad) rather like Kieron (only atheist and conservative) with the saying something thoughtprovoking then looking at you quizzicaly while he evaluated your response, no wonder he freaked me out a little as a kid :)
I met all(*) my cousins who I haven't seen in like 7 years(**). My dads brothers kids have grown into fine young nerds of the not-socially-retarded kind. I think I may have persuaded the one at UWA to join Unisfa.
(*)Ok, strictly speaking all but the one who was busy. Stupid pedantic brain.
(**)They don't live far away or anything, but I think it's a common family trait to feel awkward organising things and wait for someone else to do it, and when everyone is a member of my family...*starts train of thought inspired by just finishing Critical Mass*
