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Kevin Rudd’s 1st Birthday

By Michael Griffiths • Nov 25th, 2008 • Category: Features, Grown Up Stuff, Politics

This week marks the one-year anniversary of the ascendance to power of Prime Minister Kevin Rudd.
To help celebrate this milestone it’s instructive to put Kruddy’s story into the context of his past – as a prime dork. The type of guy at school who would sit under shadecloth at lunchtime rolling 25 sided dice in [...]



Barack Obama USA Election Victory - Liberating Politics

By Michael Griffiths • Nov 10th, 2008 • Category: Grown Up Stuff, Politics

President Obama
Imagine a winning contender for an Australian election standing in The Domain in Sydney on a cold autumn night to deliver a victory speech. Imagine that the speech was delivered not to ‘the party faithful’, colleagues and staffers but to 75,000 ordinary people drawn there by the pure charisma of the candidate, the otherworldly [...]



U.S Election Guide (Part 1)

By Michael Griffiths • Oct 21st, 2008 • Category: Grown Up Stuff, Lead Story, Politics

There’s less than a month to go in the contest to choose between the donkeys and the elephants for the title of Emperor of the Free World… also known as the US Presidential elections. Don’t worry if you’ve been too busy downloading iPhone apps to keep abreast of developments, because we’re here to fill you [...]