July 2012

Going the extra mile for the disabled

July 27, 2012 | Miscellaneous | 4 minutes of reading

The same message had been coming up on my despatcher for over an hour, with variations indicating increasing desperation: “URGENT wheelchair booking holding Ransome-Wellington Point. 2 x advantage jobs on offer. Pax waiting. Please assist.” Good luck with that, I thought. […]

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Flowers in the wheelie bin

July 10, 2012 | Music, Qld Politics | 7 minutes of reading

In 1977, John Lydon – née Rotten – launched a vitriolic attack on the monarchy that brutally summed up the status of England’s youth in the year of the Queen’s Silver Jubilee: “When there’s no future, how can there be

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