The Double Diss: Canberra goes ‘Mean Girls’

April 19, 2016May 12, 2016Leave a comment

Image Credit: None that I readily admit to. Not my image,yet my best and worst hack photoshop job, ever.

I can always use an excuse for a Mean Girls (2004) reference and tonight seemed as good of a time as any.

There’s chit chat around the Hill (Canberra) that Malcolm might call an early (pre-September) Election because the Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC) Bill was defeated for a second time. If a Bill is blocked by the other House three times, then it cannot be re-introduced, so this places the Prime Minister in a tricky spot – try again? or advise the Governor General (GG) to dissolve Parliament and call an early election?

Now for the Mean Girls references:

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Frocktober 2015: Dress Memory

October 16, 2015October 15, 20151 Comment

This week, I hung up all the donated frocks I have recieved.
I’d had a stressful day at work and was feeling a tad overwhelmed; so I needed a orderly task to calm my brain.

Seeing all the frocks, I am amazed. How lucky have I been to get so many wonderful dresses from so many wonderful women?!

A spiritual moment….?

As I unpacked each frock, I recognised some of them – friends’ dresses from moments in time that I’d shared with them – and started getting sentimental.

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Frocktober 2015: I didn’t always rock a frock

October 1, 2015September 30, 2015Leave a comment

My relationship with dresses has been an interesting one in my 23 years on earth so far….

Dresses weren’t my first choice of clothing when I was growing up. Playing dress ups as a young girl resulted in a love of dressing up (wearing lip gloss to the dinner table regularly, according to Mum!). Dresses and skirts felt like ‘Uniform’, a sentiment from my school days – I preferred pants, thanks to the late 1990s and early 2000s trackpants, low cut and wide leg jeans trends.

I have come to love dresses, in all their diverse, trendy complexity. But it be a challenge to not be able to fall back on my well-worn default of jeans with converse or heels.

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And Everything In Between: A lifetime of wisdom in half a year of work

March 17, 2015June 11, 2015Leave a comment

What I have learned after 6 months of work?
(I still feel like the little girl in the above picture, for one!)

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My Two Cents: Can Tony Abbott improve his image mid-term?

February 3, 2015February 4, 20151 Comment

“The (Abbott) government’s narrative is that they haven’t been able to do anything… There’s a negative story attached to the government. They must somehow shift the momentum. The mould will be set if they don’t do something soon and they will have a really, really hard time — and most likely will lose the next election.”

Source: ‘Tony Abbott’s knightmare could be fatal if his government fails to change tack‘

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My Two Cents: Political Legacy – Prime Minister Abbott

December 23, 2014February 3, 20153 Comments

So I was thinking, as I so often do; I thought about Prime Minister Abbott, after my last entry about Prime Ministerial interviews – what will his legacy be?

I (over?) simplified John and Julia’s tenures into a series of bullet points as below:

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My Two Cents: Prime Ministerial Interviews – insightful, or egotistical?

December 17, 2014February 3, 2015Leave a comment

We’ve had two former Prime Ministers do newsworthy interviews in late September, within the same week.

I would have thought the media would have spread them (a week?) apart for maximum impact, but the media seem to love a good adversarial matching – Liberal vs Labour – at any opportunity.

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