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[labellementeuse]

Of the good:

- pursuant to previous entry I went and purchased GK #32, like, an actual paper copy. ♥ have read it about fifty times.

- meeting blythely on Wednesday, which was heaps of fun & I'm afraid I blabbed rather a lot. :P

- I have a strict policy of no fucking dieting in exam time, and I am currently digging chocolate chip cookies in a major, major way. Tonight me and the flatmates had some disgusting dinner with steak and chips followed by jellybeans followed by peanut slabs followed by ICE-CREAM SANDWICHES. cookies + icecream = finger lickin' good!

- two exams and one majormajor portfolio down, one exam to go! \o/

- Psych, which I ran through recently and really enjoyed. Where's the Shawn/Lassiter? It must be out there...

- the ability to function on three-to-four hours of sleep - I love this about myself - life is so much easier when you can fall asleep at 3:30 and still get up at 7:30.

Of the bad:

- the latest shit John Howard is crapping all over the Aborigines, including: a six month alcohol ban, seizing control of indigenous territories for five years, "quarantining" the welfare (telling people what and how they can spend it) - I just cannot deal with this man - aussies, you're our neighbours and you make us look bad. This is unbelievable.

- the weather. SOCOLD. I couldn't get to sleep last night because my toes were cold.

Of the weird:

- Sue Bradford's latest bill: to drop the voting age to sixteen. I am all for youth rights and all, but I think there are more pressing issues: how about changing the benefit restrictions so under-25s aren't treated like dependents and paid accordingly?

Comments

[labellementeuse.livejournal.com]

What I want to know is how banning porn is going to stop child abuse. I mean, that's....where is the causal link? IT MAKES NO SENSE.

Well, child porn, yeah, but pretty sure that's ALREADY ILLEGAL. but aussie is notoriously fucked up in re: porn. for example, they're happy to convict people for having fictional child pornography. Like, fanfiction about people under the age of consent? Very illegal in Australia.

That, and I can't believe the fucking hypocrisy of the Australian government spending a century alternately ignoring, murdering, abusing, kidnapping, and generally mistreating their native populations, thus forcing them into poverty and depression, and then assuming that taking away the alcohol and porn WILL SOLVE EVERYTHING.

Yeah. I mean, they're doing a couple other things too, also bad ones, but ugh. I am just disgusted. It's totally abrogating responsibility - we fucked this group of people and we fucked them hard, and now they're abusing themselves and their children! Bad Aborigines, no alcohol or porn for you! Come on - instead of blaming the consumption of alcohol and porn (after all, if alcohol and porn are responsibile for child abuse, for consistency they should be banned EVERYWHERE) how about blaming poverty and lack of education and a subsistence lifestyle and incredibly virulent racism and a poverty trap? Things that actually need something done about?

nd is that even legal? They're Australian citizens, right? How can some Australian citizens be legally stopped doing things which are legal for every other Australian citizen? Just...gah. *headdesk*

Apparently australians don't think aborigines are people. However, I think that his wiggle-room is that he's banning it from an area (the territories) rather than a group of people. I think. But I'm not sure about that.