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New taste (for me) and M's travels

ninglun wrote 7 months ago: New taste Coaching finishing a bit late last night I went to a tiny Uigur restaurant — a real … more »

Tags: Blogging, M, My Sites, Personal, Travel, M's trip, rabbit

Is Australia a Christian country?18 comments

ninglun wrote 7 months ago: Jim Belshaw has an interesting post on this, to which I wrote an off-the-cuff response for the sake … more »

Tags: Aussie interest, Brendan Nelson, Faith and Philosophy, Jim Belshaw, Religion

John Quiggin, Jim Belshaw and Bruce on the culture wars3 comments

ninglun wrote 7 months ago: First came John Quiggin on 15 November, then Jim Belshaw on 17 November, and then Bruce on 17 Novemb … more »

Tags: observations, Politics, Aussie interest, Cultural and other, Jim Belshaw, Culture Wars

Welcome to our nightmare

ninglun wrote 7 months ago:  Orpheus Lost by Janette Turner Hospital (Australia May 2007; USA Canada October 2007):  … more »

Tags: Aussie interest, Cultural and other, Current Affairs, Faith and Philosophy, OzLit, Reading, Religion, Best Read of 2007

Friday Australian poem # 14: "The Australaise" by C J Dennis

ninglun wrote 8 months ago: Expanded since draft posting… And as for the wrong number: oops! After watching The Sounds o … more »

Tags: Diversions, Aussie interest, OzLit, Immigration, Poets and Poetry, Australian Poetry, Friday poem

National Coming Out Day 1

ninglun wrote 8 months ago: I have to confess I hadn’t noticed, but apparently yesterday (our time) and today (US time) wa … more »

Tags: Events, gay life/issues

Timely site find2 comments

ninglun wrote 9 months ago: Update Media Watch promises to be very relevant tonight! Later: Just saw it. What a classic of dish … more »

Tags: Current Affairs, Aussie interest, Cultural and other, Immigration, Citizenship

Racism and racists and The Plonker's latest foot-in-mouth attack13 comments

ninglun wrote 9 months ago: I have been giving much thought to Jim Belshaw’s post Race and racism in Australia. He is quit … more »

Tags: Current Affairs, News and Current Affairs, Faith and Philosophy, Aussie interest, racism, Immigration, Jim Belshaw, Culture Wars, Sirdan

Michelle Grattan on Kevin Andrews and Africans

ninglun wrote 9 months ago: Has the gatekeeper turned card dealer? is fair comment in my view. Andrews’s mishandling of th … more »

Tags: Current Affairs, Politics, News and Current Affairs, Aussie interest, racism, Immigration, Jim Belshaw, Citizenship

Pip Wilson: The Trouble with Muslim Bashers

ninglun wrote 9 months ago: Well worth reading. Saves me repeating myself. … more »

Tags: Religion, Faith and Philosophy, Blogging, Islam

When asses rule...

ninglun wrote 9 months ago: It must be said that mere name-calling is no form of argument, but it is really difficult to think o … more »

Tags: observations, Aussie interest, Immigration, Citizenship, Social Justice

Been going back two years...

ninglun wrote 9 months ago: Cleaning script over at the Archive and working backwards through the entries I have just been throu … more »

Tags: Personal, :), My Sites, M, Travel, M's trip

Speaking of coachees2 comments

ninglun wrote 9 months ago: This talented young man was one last year… Take time to play it if you can: he is very good! … more »

Tags: Cultural and other, ex-students/coachees

Praise for English/ESL Blog3 comments

ninglun wrote 9 months ago: I just received this email: Hi Neil I have recently stumbled across your blog (I am still a bit o … more »

Tags: Personal, :), My Sites, M, Kevin Rudd

Sirdan's news

ninglun wrote 9 months ago: Almost two years ago Sirdan moved to Kensington. Last Sunday I went over there for our Sunday lunch, … more »

Tags: Personal, Aussie interest, Sirdan

Government careers down path of superficial idiocy on citizenship test11 comments

ninglun wrote 10 months ago: NOTE: Updated. I now give the resource book a qualified . Remarks below offer some qualifications, w … more »

Tags: Politics, News and Current Affairs, Aussie interest, Immigration, M, Culture Wars, Citizenship

What's a billion dollars, mate?

ninglun wrote 10 months ago: The government’s special brand of tiger repellent, known as The Pacific Solution, has cost one … more »

Tags: Current Affairs, Politics, Aussie interest, Immigration

Sino-Gallic firecrackers

ninglun wrote 10 months ago:  Mr Muo’s Travelling Couch (or The Complex of Judge Di) by Dai Sijie 戴思杰 (2005). B … more »

Tags: Cultural and other, Reading, Best Read of 2007

That idiotic citizenship "test"4 comments

ninglun wrote 10 months ago: My impatience with this particular piece of gross idiocy has been made plain here often enough. So h … more »

Tags: Pontification and raving, observations, Current Affairs, Politics, :), News and Current Affairs, Aussie interest, racism, Immigration