Category Archives: Perth

Perth, Political

WA’s Barnett Grylls Alliance A Democratic Malfunction

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So the State Labor Government finally realises its one-vote-one-value dream through legislation that redistributed electoral boundaries in Western Australia. “Foul!” brayed the Libs and National Party. “Gerrymander!” The new boundaries favoured Labor, they howled. And the Nats were so severely disadvantaged that they appeared destined for extinction at the next election.

O the irony.

Labor out on their arse, their fate determined by the Nats who find themselves more powerful than at any time in their history. So powerful that ultimately they, not the electorate, have decided the outcome of the cliffhanger election and put the rabble that was and IS the WA Liberal Party into office. Continue reading WA’s Barnett Grylls Alliance A Democratic Malfunction →

Food, Media, Perth

Molecular Gastronomy – Myth-busting and Matchmaking at Food’s New Frontier

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Last month, The West Australian’s West Weekend Magazine food critic, Rob Broadfield (whom I lauded in a previous post), wrote a business-buster of a critique of the Little Cloud restaurant in Peppermint Grove. His review was so withering, I could have felt sorry for the chef were it not for three factors.

The first was this remark of Broadfield’s that so filled me with mirth that I had no room left for other emotions:

The salmon dish was like Tourette syndrome on a plate. Its many flavours and textures, none of them agreeable, were shouting and yelping away at each other in a cacophony of uncontrolled chemistry. Continue reading Molecular Gastronomy – Myth-busting and Matchmaking at Food’s New Frontier →

Blogging & Internet, Media, Perth, Political, Society

Troy Buswell Quokka Soccer Blogger A Flogger

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For those who have not bothered to google for the blog where the Troy Buswell quokka-kicking rumour originated, click here for the home page of the offending blogger, Matt Hayden.

Further down in my post (in blue) I’ve published in its sorry entirety this wanker’s stupid and thuggish quokka-soccer post incriminating Buswell, but for those who want to see it in its original context, it can be accessed here.

I am an active blogger, have long supported and promoted the cause of the citizen journo, and look upon the mainstream media with general disdain (and the Libs, for that matter). Going by the content and general timbre of his posts, the same applies to Matt Hayden.

But he has undermined the credibility of bloggers everywhere with his Buswell quokka post, which amounts to an act of blogging vandalism. The most outrageous instances of foul play can sometimes be saved by humour – sometimes – but Hayden’s quokka post was not remotely funny as it was written, and I do not believe it was intended to be. The tone of the post gave no indication that it was tongue-in-cheek as Hayden is now claiming. Continue reading Troy Buswell Quokka Soccer Blogger A Flogger →