December 2011
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Xtopher Hitchens, the Evangelical Atheist.
So ‘Hitch’ is dead. No, not the star of the eponymously named romantic-comedy we all wished had never left Bel-Air, but the portly journalist and unparalleled polemicist who never once fled from a fight. Oesophageal cancer at the age of 61. I only started getting into his work in the last couple of years, but fuck, he was inspiring. Uncompromising, unequivocal and willing to say things...
November 2011
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Baiada Strike Post: 20/11/11
Here’s a post i made from my facebook account regarding striking poultry workers at a Baiada chicken factory in Laverton. I thought about re-writing it to be more up-to-date, especially given that the National Union of Workers has since secured employees virtually all their demands, but for background information it sets the scene for what was a lengthy and grueling fortnight for striking...
