I’m reliably informed that the AFL grand-final was held very recently.  Apparently somebody called Hawthorn won.  I’m delighted for them. Clearly my interest in the footy is as close to 0 as possible. After the game, a famous person, Rob Mills tweeted a photo of a two plastic Lego type toys, a Sydney player bent […]

The SBS program, Living with the Enemy episode on marriage equality was a 50 minute show shot over 10 days. That means a lot has been left out as the production team go to great efforts to keep the story moving forward and connecting all the dots.  Tough calls are made on what’s in and […]

The ACL is dishonest and disingenuous when talking about the reasons for their opposition to marriage equality. It’s more about their religion and orthodox Christian values than it is about the well-being of children.

Sometimes I think I live in a cocoon and I feel oblivious to what’s happening around me. I’ve always been good at railing against the world, in my 20’s I  fought city people for the rights of rural people.  City folk still have little comprehension of what its like over the Westgate bridge (and yes, […]

Some guy kissed another guy and it made it to the telly. Some guys don’t get the whole kissing thing and when two men do it they get all nervous. The guy doing the kissing is an American football player, Michael Sam.  He’s gay and the first one of us to be drafted into the […]

If that sounds like it’s from a song, you’re right.  Tim Freedman wrote “No Aphrodisiac” in 1997 about his girlfriend who was living in another city at the time, it was considered the breakthrough song of The Whitlams, an Australian rock band formed in the 1990’s.  The line from the song is the title of […]

I’m a lad of Western Victoria, born and raised in Hamilton in the state’s Western District. I lived there from 1963 until 1995. Then I moved to Melbourne. Hamilton is the place I consider home.  Despite my 20 years in the big smoke, I still have a hankering for that small rural town. This Easter […]

Somewhere along the way my Dad died.  I knew he died.  It was completely unexpected, well, except that he was 84. Brian John Storer 13 December 1928 to 30 July 2013 It was 14 months between my mother dying and Dad dying.  The two deaths were so very different.  Mum’s was drawn out and painful […]

Today I turn 50. 13th August 1963 was when it all started. I’ve said before that birthday celebrations seem a bit odd to me.  Counting how many times we’ve been around the sun.  Still, it marks a point in time and 50 is one of those ‘important numbers’.  I have embraced it and gone all […]

I just can’t believe that my government lead by Kevin Rudd and the opposition leader, Tony Abbott are so tied up in knots about asylum seekers. It seems to be crazy and I want them to know how bad I think their decisions are.  On one hand we have Rudd wanting to send them all […]