http://www.liligans.com So you think you're cultured? Tue, 16 Mar 2010 21:42:04 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Former Federal Treasurer, Peter Costello, who teased the Australian public for months on end by not revealing whether he wanted to be the new leader of the Liberal Party, has demonstrated once again what a sore loser he is. In an article in today's The Age newspaper Costello has criticised the ... http://www.liligans.com/index.php/2010/03/17/peter-costello-eats-sour-grapes-once-again/ The problem with Kevin Rudd is that he is not masculine. He's as asexual as Alexander Downer was but without Downer's kindly demeanour. Whereas Downer reminded us of a benevolent uncle, Rudd is more like a petulant child. He sulks. He is disrespectful to women as he was ... http://www.liligans.com/index.php/2010/03/16/does-prime-minister-rudd-appeal-to-women/ I would hate to think that life has taught me nothing at all. To hold on to the same views that I had as a child would mean that experience was not my teacher, that I had not matured, that I had not grown. In other words, ... http://www.liligans.com/index.php/2010/03/14/politicians-should-be-allowed-to-change-their-views/ While parts of Melbourne were being trashed by the terrible storm yesterday, we attended a stamp auction at the Brighton Philatelic Society. So what were we doing there, I ask myself in the manner of our soliloquising Prime Minister? Well, we had put my husband's ... http://www.liligans.com/index.php/2010/03/07/an-amazing-stamp-auction/ Our emergency departments are not coping with the huge numbers of patients seeking attention. People in desperate need often take eight hours to be seen by medical staff. There are even cases of people having to queue up outside emergency departments after having been brought there by ambulances. These ... http://www.liligans.com/index.php/2010/03/04/how-to-unclog-emergency-departments-in-aussie-hospitals/ I sat through the National Press Club's appearance by our Prime Minister. It was vintage Rudd and I use the term "vintage" to mean "same old, same old." He announced his new plan for solving the problems in our public hospitals by keeping patients out of them. ... http://www.liligans.com/index.php/2010/03/03/rudds-health-revolution-is-no-panacea/ After more than forty years of letting our school pupils down, the Australian Government wants to to go back to the good old days when reading, writing and arithmetic mattered. So it has introduced a new curriculum which will actually include correct spelling and grammar because nowadays hardly anyone can ... http://www.liligans.com/index.php/2010/02/28/back-to-basics-curriculum-in-aussie-schools/ Yesterday, I wrote about the Bikeway rapist who had his sentence reduced because he showed remorse. I said then that I was fed up with this silly ploy of boo hoo hooing to get the judge's sympathy. Well, today, Cameron Cook was convicted of trying to murder ... http://www.liligans.com/index.php/2010/02/25/cameron-cook-you-should-have-cried/ I lived in Brisbane at the time when the Bikeway rapist, Luke James Colless, was attacking women while they were exercising along bikeways and in parks. This happened between 2006 and 2008 to eleven women, five of whom were digitally penetrated. I remember how Colless terrorised women, ... http://www.liligans.com/index.php/2010/02/24/it-was-only-digital-rape-so-whats-all-the-fuss-about/ It was only a matter of time before some study concluded that Ritalin is not doing much good for "sufferers" of ADHD. That's the modern term for a child who misbehaves. He drives his parents mad and he doesn't pay attention in class. Little Johnny is a terror at home and ... http://www.liligans.com/index.php/2010/02/17/so-ritalin-is-a-write-off/