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Monthly Archives: October 2004

Subject selections for 2005 - Pain in the arse!

Monday, October 11, 2004

International Economic Law is not available for 2005. Ugh. And here I was so looking forward to arguing with those anti-globulisers/anti-capitalists.
On the other hand, Competition/Antitrust Law, which wasn’t offered in 2004 but is now offered in 2005, but only in Summer. That’s dumb, because I don’t want to have a full load in Summer, since [...]

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Australian Federal Election - Latham concedes

Saturday, October 9, 2004

Mark Latham has just conceded on Channel 9.
The Good: It was a dignified, sincere and gracious concession speech. He also outlined a little of his plans for Labour as opposition leader.
The Bad: Some of the policies that he outlined are the very policies that he campaigned on in this election. Don’t people learn? Why doesn’t [...]

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Australian Federal Election

Saturday, October 9, 2004

Liberals gain seats, Labour lost seats, Greens and Democrats seem to be wiped out, all calculations show Liberals on track to win the election.
And more importantly, it appears that the religious right-wing Family First gain significant votes, though not winning any seats. This clearly shows that there is a significantly growing social conservative movement here [...]

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Which Asian Stereotype are you?

Saturday, October 2, 2004

This is damn bloody funny! I think those Asians living overseas in Western countries will easily relate to the Asian stereotypes…
TWINKIE
Besides your nationality, there is little to distinguish you from white people. Your significant other is not Asian and never has been You have few Asian friends, if any. You are embarrassed at family events [...]

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