Drumroll please

I proudly present:My first published paper in a peer-reviewed journal. (Download the 450Kb PDF). Mine’s the second paper.It took a while, but this is my Masters thesis, summarised at breakneck speed in a backyard in Cupertino. I must admit it reads a little like...

Australia 2020

This weekend, Australia is getting together, via a large number of community representatives, and having an enormous discussion about our future. It’s one of those grand democratic gabfests that you dream about when you’re a young undergraduate politics...
Courage…

Courage…

From the Yemen Times via silverblue:[Eight year old] Nojoud Muhammed Nasser arrived at court by herself on Wednesday, April 2, looking for a judge to handle her case against her father, Muhammed Nasser, who forced her two months ago to marry Faez Ali Thamer, a man 22...

No borders, no nations

My faithful iCal has reminded me that at 2pm today, Sunday 16th of March, the Palm Sunday Peace Rally will take place starting from the State Library in Melbourne. A good time to pull out the new “make coffee, not war” T-shirt from the little coffee shop...

International Women’s Day 2008

It’s the strangest thing. Here we are in 2008. One in three Australian women is still the subject of domestic violence. There’s yet another woman in a Muslim country on death row for being caught in a video with a man who wasn’t her husband —...